Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheesy level of political debate today has favored the party on the attack, it being easier to plant fear and confusion than to explain why blah blah blah really means blah blah, as shown in diagram 4A (see footnote on page 495), which helped elect a lot of Republicans running against Big Gummint. On Election Night, I almost swallowed my gum when Senator Dole said, in an interview, "There are some things that government does well," something that no Republican has uttered in years. A man who has spent 34 years in the Federal Government must have been surprised...
...missile fired from a Russian Su-25 attack jet on a testing range went off course and narrowly missed an apartment complex and a nuclear power plant, the ITAR-Tass news agency said today. The missile, launched on Friday from Voronezh, about 350 miles south of Moscow, reportedly landed just 2.7 miles from the Novovoronezhskaya power station and only 660 feet from the apartment buildings, injuring one man. Regional Gov. Alexander Kovalyov complained on national television that he has repeatedly asked for the range to be moved. Last Friday's TIME Daily MONEY
...very least, if you read Maribuana Reconsidered, you can arm yourself with a few useful sets of statistics and some interesting cocktail party factoids. For instance, the sacred plant was so useful that Henry VIII required its cultivation by English farmers, and George Washington himself had a crop...
...after all, personal and subjective. Grinspoon, by necessity, aims for generalizations. Maribuana Reconsidered is a long book, equal parts history, biology and psyche, with a little bit of philosophical speculation thrown in for good measure. You might want to skip a few of the more boring chapters, particularly "From Plant to Intoxicant," which will only interest the most finicky connoisseurs...
...Mexico passionately. We have all the resources here, but they are not properly exploited.'' When Clinton announced the peso rescue package, Mexicali and Calexico rejoiced. ``San Guillermo is a man with vision,'' says a smiling Joaquin Ramirez Chacon about Bill Clinton. Ramirez Chacon employs 400 at his Pepsi bottling plant and sends his 10-year-old daughter to school in Calexico. As he puts it, ``You need us, and we need...