Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Three former Philip Morris employees have accused the tobacco giant of manipulating nicotine in cigarettes, according to government affidavits released today. Ian Uydess, former Philip Morris senior scientist, Philip Morris' former research director William Farone, and a former Richmond., Va. plant manager told the Food and Drug Administration that Philip Morris alters nicotine levels several times in the cigarette making process. Their accusations contradict the firm's sworn testimony before Congress in 1994. Then president William Campbell denied that the company controls nicotine or that the chemical is addictive. He also said that the tobacco is never blended...
John Atkins, in his role as Elviro, Arsamene's servant, provides comic relief in a subtle, yet outwardly funny manner. In one scene, Atkins appears disguised as a flower-girl, wearing a large, tire-shaped plant holder around his waist and singing about the many varieties of flowers he sells. And near the opera's end, when after the three-and-one-half hour performance audience members have begun to fidget in their seats, Elviro proclaims, "I am really exhausted...
...like atmosphere of the recovery center. Set designer Kate Khamsi '95 deserves kudos for rendering both the interior and exterior settings with a bleak but psychedelic flair. Inside the recovery center, for instance, the common room is decked out in metal, with a silver duct-taped couch and a plant partially painted silver. These touches do more than conjure up images of Warhol's factory; they remind the audience how robotic pharmacueticals can make people...
...first time in my 20 years as a Ford manager, we're using the minds of the people that work here," Smith said a plant manager told...
...Polarizer to describe all this accurately. Dole's campaign, said Pat Buchanan in the South Carolina debate, is "vapid" and "hollow"--as the candidate demonstrated when he blew a particularly ripe opportunity last week. With Buchanan pushing his nativist protectionism elsewhere in the state, Dole toured the bustling BMW plant near Spartanburg, a symbol of South Carolina's embrace of the global economy. "It was a perfect chance to hit a home run for free trade and the interconnected world economy," says Governor David Beasley, an energetic Dole supporter. So what did Dole do? Nothing. He stood by quietly, speaking...