Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles department of water and power plans to build a 200-kw photovoltaic system that may provide the energy to run a power plant's cooling tower in suburban Sun Valley, Calif. If this project gets federal funding and goes through, it would be eight times larger than the biggest existing photovoltaic system. Up to now, such systems have generally been confined to remote and inaccessible locations where the costs of providing conventional power are prohibitive. For example, in California solar cells generate energy for Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even...
...assembling A.I.E. television sets, which will be sold in the U.S. under the "Williamsons" name as well as under private labels of K-Mart and other chains. In another case, Harper's International, a Hong Kong automotive distributor, plans to build a big bus-and-truck assembly plant in Shenzhen (Shumchun), just across the border from Hong Kong. In Shenzhen, Chinese are already assembling handbags, shoes, key chains and plastic flowers for Hong Kong companies...
...minority of businessmen wonder if Hong Kong may be undercutting itself by shifting operations to China. Says Jack Tang, chairman of South Sea Textile Manufacturing: "In effect, you're setting up a plant with the latest machinery and you're teaching the mainland Chinese production and marketing. When your contract expires, you find that you have just created more competition for yourself...
COLORADO--Federal marshals arrested at least 150 anti-nuclear activists trained in civil disobedience Sunday when the protesters marched in front of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant about 16 miles northwest of Denver. Rocky Flats is the nation's only producer of plutonium "triggers" for nuclear weapons...
About 300 Colorado protesters, led by Daniel Ellsberg '52, had trained for weeks in a plan to blockade three entrances to the plant. However, about two dozen federal marshals and security guards from Rockwell International were waiting to greet them at the plant's east and west gates and at a railroad spur leading into the facility. Ellsberg was arrested at the railroad tracks, just as he had been while protesting against the plant exactly a year...