Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airtight the room where he prints labels on the packaging. Running the pollution-control devices cost him $180,000 a year. After all that, he says, when he got a seventh printing press,the EPA told him to shut it down. He says he must now build a new plant 60 miles away , to which he will move two presses...
Keith Overcash, the North Carolina EPA regional director in charge of regulating Ballenger's plant, says the plant managers and EPA were in constant contact over the past 10 years and relations were always cooperative. According to Overcash, Ballenger himself never attended the meetings. Overcash says the EPA never told Ballenger to shut down his new press, and speculated that the company may be splitting up its operation simply to get below pollution limits and turn off the pollution-control devices. Ballenger concedes that he hopes to be able to shut down the costly devices. Meanwhile, he has voted with...
...This is kind of like a task with a vision," Tu said as she placed a plant into her crate of greens.CrimsonDougles M. PravdaMembers of the Class of 1999 who worked on a farm in Lincoln, Mass. last week pose with their leaders...
...batting-practice pitcher, the ground keeper. And when he wasn't on the field, he was talking baseball." Cal Sr., whose face might have entranced Grant Wood, cracks a rare smile when he thinks back to his days in Asheville. "At the start of batting practice, I would plant the boys at the base of the outfield fence to shag flies and tell them, 'Don't move.' But as practice went on, I would see them inch in toward the infield, until by the end Cal was taking ground balls hit by my third baseman, Doug DeCinces, while Billy...
...wise-ass roughneck from a broken home--his mother was a seven-times-married alcoholic--whose teen years were, to say the least, troubled. He was into drinks and drugs, worked days at the local Hormel meat-packing plant and fitfully attended night school. He did some stand-up at the Student Union while attending the University of Iowa and after two years dropped out to pursue a career in comedy...