Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing more sophisticated with the rapid rise of Mexican immigration to the U.S. and the explosion of commerce since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect last year. The border, Mexicans like to say, is mostly imaginary, despite patrols, guard dogs and chain-link fences. ``They could plant land mines, and it would not stop people from crossing,'' says Mexicali writer Sergio Gomez Montero. ``We may not like gringos for historical reasons, but today the world is dividing into commercial blocks, and we are handcuffed to each other for better or for worse.'' Travel the country: it seems hard...
...just set up shop and dump the contents of their titles into a file and send it off. The entry fee is relatively low: setting up a site on the World Wide Web can cost as little as $5,000 -- a pittance compared with the cost of a printing plant. In addition, existing online services pay publications for the right to post their journalists' prepaid contents, and some publications charge for access directly. Many online users are happy to surf through these services, checking out specs in Road & Track or downloading photos of models from Elle. But the most successful...
...next afternoon I show up at my brother's office, in a groovily refurbished ex-power plant on the near West Side. He finishes rolling some calls and then waves me into his office, a cavernous space with a giant steam turbine as a conversation piece. I think it's supposed to be an irony thing...
...then that the EPA mandated that the village lay new pipes, erect a sewage-treatment plant, close the dump and build an incinerator. While the EPA eventually footed $18 million of the initial $32 million expense of the treatment plant, the village was forced to raise utility bills to pay the rest, and the costs associated with the improvements continue to climb. That helped bring Key West's cost of living to the highest level in the state, forcing many "conches"-native Key Westers-to move away. Even so, John Jones, the village engineer, admits "it was something the city...
Royal Plankenhorn, a member of the United Paperworkers International Union, described a strike against the A.E. Staley Company, which operates a corn processing plant in Decatur...