Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cuts for countries that try to acquire a nuclear capability. They also regard Carter Administration policies as quixotic and punitive. Pakistan, for example, is furious over Washington's jawboning nuclear nonproliferation activities, which recently led France to cancel a contract to provide Pakistan with a nuclear reprocessing plant. The result, says Zia, is that "this is perhaps the lowest point the [U.S.-Pakistani] relationship has reached...
TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter made a survey of 60 U.S. firms, to which he submitted a detailed questionnaire delving into pay scales, working conditions and advancement opportunities for blacks and coloreds. He also visited plants and spoke to nonwhite workers in their communities. According to his findings, Ford deserves top marks for doing away with the most noxious symbols of apartheid. The company regularly consults nonwhite employees on plant problems and even recognizes black unions; though such unions are not specifically prohibited, black organizing is effectively blocked by South Africa's labor code, which excludes unionized blacks...
Though few have yet moved as far as Ford, other companies have also taken steps against apartheid. Colgate-Palmolive, which has a plant near Johannesburg, assumed most of the costs of operating a black township school in a neighboring community to ensure higher educational standards for nonwhites than in government-run schools. While a very few firms, notably IBM, have long had equal-pay-for-equal-work policies, many more companies have lately been moving to redress a particular grievance of blacks: a system of bonuses that traditionally allowed whites to earn about three or four times as much...
Even so, since old prejudices die hard, progress is often slow and uneven. Despite its commendable record in other fields, Ford has not yet overcome apartheid in the canteen at its plant in Neave, near Port Elizabeth. Though all workers are served at the same cafeteria, the whites eat on one side of a partition and nonwhites on the other side. Few other companies follow Ford's example and encourage nonwhites to participate in negotiations about wages and work rules...
There is nothing mysterious about the buildup of atmospheric CO2. All fires, from the smoky flames of cave dwellers to the searing hearth of a modern steel plant, produce CO2. It makes no difference whether the fire is fueled by wood, coal, oil or gas. The inevitable byproduct is always dumped into what scientists sardonically call the "sewer...