Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceptionally adept at avoiding the meat my parents continually poked in my direction. Receiving protein in the form of mangled flesh and sizzled blood vessels has never been my idea of nutrition. As to the argument of "faunaism," I have yet to dissect a plant and discover a brain...
...almost all have shuttered their plants and offices, or turned them over to local workers to run, and brought their U.S. employees home. Johnson & Johnson's plant in Tehran, which made baby products, was expropriated in August. GM still claims a minority interest in a Tehran auto factory, but it has been run by Iranians since GM pulled out the last five Americans and a Swiss a year ago. Last December Du Pont closed its fiber plant in Isfahan...
...enormous Helianthus plant is familiar as the source of those light gray seeds that birds like to peck at and kids love to munch. But what is exciting farmers is a somewhat shorter (5 to 6 ft.) variety that yields a dark brown seed containing a high-protein food oil. This fall growers in North Dakota and adjacent states will harvest more than 5 million acres of what they call "flower," double last year's planting and 100 times as large as that of a decade ago. Some 75% of the crop, which will fatten farm incomes...
...central question for the committee, Wilson said, is how the people of Massachusetts can be sure their plant operators and state officials would be better prepared to meet a nuclear emergency than those at Three Mile Island...
Attributing most nuclear accidents to operator error and "general sloppiness," Wiltshire noted the need to "make sure safety procedures are maintained and updated through the whole life of each plant...