Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the summers after my first and sophomore years of high school, I did all kinds of exciting things. I participated in archaeological digs, studied German in a small town in Austria and helped gather data for a study on plant life and mammals (shrews, rats and mice, more specifically--they really are cute, despite what some people may say) on an island off the coast of France. But then I got the strange idea that I had to spend my summers finding out what I might want to do "later...
...also seems to have left behind any vindictiveness, at least in a commercial sense. Goizueta has said nothing about a controversial new law aimed at keeping foreign companies from investing in Cuba. It's a law that many FORTUNE 500 companies such as Coke--which lost a plant to the revolution--would like to see go away...
Meanwhile, the FBI has blocked all access to the adjacent acreage. Unless Dean can plant a new crop of spring wheat by mid-June, he will have no revenue for meeting his mortgage payments. Still desperately trying to strike a deal with the FBI, Dean will not give interviews...
...time to plant cotton and corn has come and, in most places, gone, while farmers hunker down in their fields and crumble handfuls of soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields...
Instead of giving Clinton the hoped-for acquittal--which could have buried the issue and discredited Starr--the jurors handed the G.O.P. a bright flag to plant in the Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because...