Word: plante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are still far from ideal. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week proposed a record $2.59 million fine against IBP, alleging that in 1985 and 1986 the largest U.S. meat-packer knowingly failed to record 1,038 job-related injuries and illnesses at its Dakota City, Neb., plant. The unreported cases included knife wounds, concussions, burns, hernias, fractures and carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful condition of the wrist and hand often caused by repetitive motion...
Most of us start our workdays with a familiar routine: sipping coffee, logging on the computer or perhaps watering a plant. TIME's Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and Nation Editor Walter Isaacson talk to each other on the telephone. One such conversation several months ago strayed beyond the standard morning fare of news topics. Discussing Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy initiatives, Talbott and Isaacson were suddenly struck by a tantalizing question: What effect will all this have on the cold war? Associate Editor Thomas Sancton, meanwhile, was grappling with another puzzle, this one posed by Gorbachev...
...multilanguage weekly Moscow News started printing hard-hitting stories about corrupt officials, inefficient factories and alienated youth. Ogonyok, for example, has published such long-banned writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Osip Mandelstam. Moscow News has exposed police harassment of a journalist seeking to document shoddy construction of a power plant. Just how daring the press became is illustrated by a joke making the rounds in Moscow. A pensioner calls a friend and exclaims, "Did you see that incredible article in Pravda today?" "No, tell me about it," says the friend. "Sorry," the pensioner replies, "not on the phone...
Several hundred of the 48,000 state-owned firms have already been put on a self-financing basis and have elected their own plant managers. Some 20 ministries and more than 70 large firms have been allowed to buy and sell products abroad without going through the bureaucratic bottleneck of the Foreign Trade Ministry. Part of the hard currency these firms earn from such transactions may be used to buy badly needed foreign equipment and technology. A similar strategy seems to be behind a new law permitting joint ventures with foreign companies. Under regulations adopted last January, a Western firm...
...good to see your article on the Native Americans, some of whom have made progress by participating in the economy of their regions. The Passamaquoddy own several businesses in northern Maine, including the largest cement plant in New England. The Cherokee in North Carolina have bought a factory for making mirrors. This strategy enables the American Indians to address their unemployment problem and become less dependent on federal subsidies...