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Word: plant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fits in perfectly with this under-talented cast. Gibbons does return to work, however, and his new attitude inexplicably impresses two new executives hired to clean house at Initech, resulting in his promotion and the release of Samir and Michael. Now vowing revenge on the company, the three friends plant a computer virus that rounds off transactions and places the excess money into an account (sound familiar?). Predictably, things get really screwed up but are miraculously resolved in an event which should hardly be a surprise...

Author: By Paul Cantagallo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OFFICE SPACE cramped | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...without explanation, the company closed the plant on Dec. 11, Morales said. Currently, both women are unemployed...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reich, Workers Decry Sweatshops | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...reduces outsourcing costs and keeps jobs nearby. Volvo, based in Goteborg, Sweden, has turned an old shipyard in the nearby town of Arendal into a supplier village, where nine supplier partners construct components and subsystems and line them up in the proper order before shipping them to the assembly plant. It all happens in double-quick time. "We give them eight days' notice to get the quantities together, and then we give them four hours' notice to do the sequencing," Franzen says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...read with horror your article about the terminator gene the Monsanto Corp. is developing to remove the ability of a plant's seeds to reproduce [ENVIRONMENT, Feb. 1]. Your statement that no "serious scientist" thinks dire forecasts of accidental widespread sterilization of natural flora will come to pass brings to mind many other past assertions. Weren't we told that DDT was a safe pesticide and that pouring tons of waste into our waters was a safe form of disposal? The only thing a "serious" scientist should be thinking today is that we really know very little about the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...similar to that available to developers of hybrids; in most instances, only the first progeny of a hybrid is a marketable crop, and subsequent seed crops do not carry the parents' useful characteristics. Monsanto's effort to protect what is rightfully the company's may help to stimulate further plant research, to the betterment of agriculture and horticulture. TIB SZEGO Lindsay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 22, 1999 | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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