Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure that they will all get out and vote tomorrow." In one of his few scheduled public appearances Monday, Dole launched an attack on the protectionist trade stance of Pat Buchanan. At a high-tech computer company in Rochester, he said Buchanan's proposals would put the export-reliant plant out of business. "Dole looked better today than I've seen him in a long time," reports Edwards. "He's been taking things easy today, spending most of his time making sure that every bit of his large, well-organized campaign machinery in the state is working."A Flood...
LONDON: The IRA belatedly claimed responsibility for a bomb that ripped apart one of London's trademark double decker buses, killing one person, and sending nine to the hospital. The dead man may have been an IRA operative on his way to plant the device somewhere else. The IRA issued a statement saying it regretted the loss of life, but the blast is evidence that the organization's February 9th bombing of a London office complex was not a fluke. "The cease-fire in England is definitely over," says Time's Barry Hillenbrand. "If the terror campaign does not work...
...most economists still expect continued growth this year--and they do--that is partly because they think the Fed will cut interest rates some more. They further expect business spending for new plant and equipment and strong export sales to take up slack from consumers. Also, says economist Bernard Weinstein of the University of North Texas, "you don't have a recession in an election year...
With billion-dollar class actions and tales of perjury by top execs, cigarette makers are feeling the heat. Their nightmare scenario is that smoking will be outlawed. Even if it were banned, which is unlikely, the tobacco industry wouldn't have to go up in smoke. The much maligned plant need not be rolled and lighted. Here are other forms it can take...
Well, why not? One truck model--Ford's F-Series pickup, the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. last year--sold more units than any of GM's seven divisions except Chevrolet. GM's truck-transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, has operated every hour of every day for the past five years, and industry experts calculate that if GM could add two more truck plants, it could sell 450,000 more units a year, for an added profit of $3 billion...