Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arnold Arboretum's first plant-hunting expedition to the Far East in 60 years, staff members of the Arboretum brought back hundreds of exotic plant seeds, some of which have already begun to germinate, Dr. Richard E. Weaver, an expedition member at the Arboretum, said yesterday...
...this cozy relationship with officials that Disini apparently used on behalf of Westinghouse. For a while, reported TIME'S Bernstein last week, it seemed that the nuclear plant deal had been locked up by Westinghouse's chief competitor. General Electric. The Philippine National Power Corporation had finished preliminary feasibility studies by early 1974 and had signed a contract with G.E.'s local consulting firm. According to knowledgeable Philippine businessmen, Marcos then unexpectedly intervened and stunned a number of advisers by ordering that the profitable contract be awarded to Westinghouse instead...
...leave it to Hermie [Disini] to play golf [with Marcos]. That's his job." According to some accounts in Manila, Disini bragged that Herdis and Asia Industries will bring him a 7% fee on the $616 million that Westinghouse is being paid to construct the single Bataan plant. A Westinghouse spokesman insisted last week that the commissions being paid are within "corporate policy guidelines. Westinghouse denies it has made any improper payments relating to the Philippines nuclear plant...
Apparently not content with his sales commissions on the nuclear deal, Disini acquired the Philippine Summa Insurance Corp., which promptly won a portion of the $693 million policy sold to the National Power Corporation to cover the Bataan plant. The ambitious entrepreneur also bought controlling interest in the consortium of firms that are constructing the generator under contract from Westinghouse. But the fate of these lucrative enterprises may now be in doubt. Marcos last week ordered his Department of Industry "to look into what corporations of Mr. Disini's can be legitimately divested from him, especially those for which...
...voluntary unemployment increasingly attractive. Another article argues for a pure merit system and against the affirmative-action position in the Allan Bakke case before the U.S. Supreme Court. December's lead piece attacked the environmentalists in their long-running dispute with Consolidated Edison over location of a power plant in the Hudson River Valley. The November cover featured National Review Editor and Yale-man William F. Buckley Jr.'s latest quarrel with his alma mater, over its insistence on presenting "all sides" of "any issue...