Word: plant
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...similarly large worker protests occurred at the Daqing oil fields, which schoolchildren still study as the pinnacle of Chinese engineering and Maoist cradle-to-grave security. In both spots, workers were peeved, genuinely needy of some economic relief?and, most surprising, organized. Workers from one factory, Liaoyang Ferro-Alloys Plant, had tried demonstrating last October against the closure of their factory but accomplished nothing. So they reached out to other workers. According to labor activists, leaders from the plant brought together workers from five other factories for protests that began March 11. That day, 5,000 people gathered in front...
...Although Liaoyang and Daqing provide the most dramatic examples of organizing, workers in Zhengzhou over the past two years built a network of activists that succeeded, for a while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang Ren is one of the leaders. Now in his 50s with ample girth and a wide-open face, he could have stepped out of a 1960s propaganda poster. For three decades he labored at the Power Generation Equipment Plant, a money-losing factory with half-century-old machinery, that...
...liar, Sidney... Oh, it's a publicity man's nature to be a liar. I wouldn't hire you if you wasn't a liar. I pay you a C-and-a-half where you, you plant big lies about me and the club all over the map... [But] you are a personal liar too, because ya don't do the work that I pay ya for." - Joe Robard (Joseph Leon) in the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...satisfying conclusion, she tells the emotionally dishonest man who has monopolized her life that when she met him she started growing a plant that she has been watering ever since. Ending their relationship, she announces to him, “now, you may water it your damn self...
...been frozen out of J.J.'s column because he's been unable to deliver on a promise to break up a romance between J.J.'s adored young sister Susie and Steve Dallas, a promising young singer. Desperate to return to J.J.'s good graces, he has the inspiration to plant a smear of Dallas, as a dope-smoking Red, in a rival column. That little trick doesn't drive the lovers apart so, on J.J.'s orders, Sidney plants reefers on Dallas and has him arrested and assaulted by a corrupt cop named Harry Kello. Later that night Sidney...