Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sold" [May 15]. It has been nearly 30 years now since Dad sent me to the University of Illinois so I could "make a living with my head instead of my back." Even today when spring comes, the instincts come back. It is time to prepare the ground and plant...
...United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures and cornfields, laced with urgent streams and dreaming lakes...
Farmers notwithstanding, most Americans welcome foreign capital. A typical reaction comes from Lisa Freeburn, 21, who left her job as a bank teller to become a receptionist for the German-owned Keiper U.S.A., which opened an auto accessories plant in Battle Creek, Mich., 20 months ago. Says she: "I like it much better than the bank. There's more international atmosphere here. You get a bit of both cultures...
...Pittston, Pa., a community of 60,000 that slipped into decline when its coal mines gave out, West Germany's Schott Optical Glass company opened a manufacturing plant in 1969 with 60 employees. It now has 600. Reports TIME Correspondent Gisela Bolte: "City fathers have hired a consultant in Switzerland to recruit other foreign companies. A Swiss firm that has developed a friction reducing process for machinery will soon open in Pittston. To make the community even more attractive, the local airport runway will soon be extended to accommodate jumbo jets. In addition, a 42-acre industrial park...
Both sides benefit from this selling of America. For too long, international investment has been a one-way street, with the U.S. spending billions to set up plants and factories abroad. U.S. multinationals have spread prosperity around the globe, but they have also eliminated jobs for American workers at home, and this has increased pressure to block imports that further threaten American jobs. Now foreign investors are returning those jobs to the U.S., and that will make it more difficult for the U.S. to revert to nearsighted protectionism. Explains Economist Louis Wells of the Harvard Business School, an expert...