Word: plant
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...this President Bush makes sure to plant himself as often as possible on the factory floor, surrounding himself with happy workers--as he did last week at a window-and-door factory in Tampa, Fla.--and touting the job-creating power of his tax cuts, even as he acknowledges that many people are still out of work...
...past few weeks U.S. regulators have begun processing an application to construct the $1.8 billion plant, which has strong backing from powerful state and federal officials, including Republican Pete Domenici, who is chairman of the Senate Energy Committee. URENCO , an Anglo-Dutch-German consortium, hopes to build in New Mexico as part of Louisiana Energy Services, or LES, an alliance that includes the big American firms Exelon, Duke and Entergy, as well as Cameco, a uranium mining company and Westinghouse, a nuclear fuel manufacturer. If it is built, the plant would produce fuel for nuclear power generation...
...plant?s construction is facing some tough questions in the wake of President Bush's recent call for strict nuclear non-proliferation safeguards, and new revelations from A. Q. Khan, a Pakistani atomic scientist who has admitted passing nuclear design secrets on to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Khan obtained those design secrets, allegedly based on URENCO drawings, after being employed in the 1970's by a subsidiary of a Dutch company that worked closely with URENCO...
...Some people were really into it." . Some people said, ‘We don’t want to hear about the best time to plant tomatoes!’"Payne says. "But they were the minority...
...much, too soon" applies to a range of commodities. At Anyang Iron & Steel, one of China's biggest steel producers, the company's vice chairman, Wu Changxun, points to a tremendous dirt expanse outside the factory. Workers are erecting a new foundry there that will more than double the plant's output capacity. It is slated to provide part of the 50 million tons in increased capacity expected nationwide by 2005. "Banks are offering us loans even without our asking," says Wu. That money will have to be repaid. Letting extra capacity sit idle is no option. If the economy...