Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Montana briefly in the hope of earning some money. According to investigators, at the factory Ted began dating a female supervisor. (A fellow employee told TIME it was a single date.) After their relationship went nowhere, he responded by composing crude limericks about her and posting them around the plant. When David ordered him to stop, Ted stuck one onto the very machine his brother was operating. David instantly fired him. Ted had been on the job just four months. Soon after, he wrote the woman a letter in which he said he had considered doing harm...
Henry David Thoreau went off to live in a cabin he built himself. But while he was there, he studied the classics and complicated literature; he conducted elaborate observations of classified plants, herbs and trees, completed many journals. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said of Thoreau, he knew the exact date when each plant within 30 miles of Concord would blossom. And he remained close to his family and friends. In the woods he became more adult...
Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is among the great manipulative villains of our time. Your article warns us that he is building the "world's largest underground chemical-weapons plant" to produce nerve gas [WORLD, April 1]. Industrialized and developing countries are equally threatened by megalomaniacs playing with the most destructive gadgets man has ever created. Democracy is threatened, and the superpowers seem as powerless as banana republics. HELENE THIBAULT Ottawa...
...full time. The additional burden to the College budget would include increased staffing hours and perhaps a greater use of electricity. But if we do some simple calculations, we can see that the marginal cost of keeping the library running is minimal. First off, Harvard runs its own energy plant, so that cost is down to zero. Second, Harvard only needs to maintain two students and one adult to keep Lamont open...
...California can't arbitrarily lower its cost of labor or real estate. Intel, the world's largest maker of microchips, chose Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site for a new $1.3 billion semiconductor plant, stiffing its own headquarters location in pricey Silicon Valley. New Mexico sweetened the deal further by giving Intel a 30-year exemption from property taxes for the plant, which Intel says will create 3,000 jobs. The exemption formed the bulk of a 30-year, $566 million incentive package from New Mexico that works out to nearly $190,000 per job. (New Mexico's unemployment rate...