Word: plante
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Demong added that Harvard might welcome a Pemberton plant nursery but not a supermarket at the Memorial Drive site. She said a supermarket would bring in too many people and would be difficult to displace should Harvard need the land in the future...
Striking General Motors workers in Flint, Michigan scored a small victory today, as their walkout at an AC Delco plant forced the temporary closing of a nearby truck plant that was running short of components. GM furloughed 3,100 workers at the truck factory. The Delco plant produces spark plugs, filters, cruise controls and other parts for the industry's Big Three. "Today's automobile factory is living off day-to-day, shift-to-shift inventories," says TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "One walkout can shut down everyone else." Negotiations between the two sides continued today. The United Auto...
Workers in a General Motors auto parts plant in Flint, Michigan went on strike this morning, after making no progress in a 25-hour negotiating session that lasted all night Tuesday. More than 6,800 union workers took to the picket lines, calling for GM to reduce overtime and hire more permanent employees.TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirterdescribes the latest walkout as a "virtual replay" of last October's strike at another Flint plant, when GM reluctantly gave in to the strikers' demands for a staff increase. McWhirter says that GM's current hard stance is surprising. "By giving...
...percent of the species on Earth 225 million years ago, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The study's authors theorize that an explosion as far as 185 trillion miles away could have eroded the earth's protective layer, exposing plant life to deadly ultraviolet radiation and thus disrupting the food chain. A supernova has long been a suspect in the planet's most severe episode of mass extinction, but today's evidence is the first to connect an exploding star with destruction of the ozone. TIME science writer Michael Lemonick explains...
Investment bankers bring together parties that need funds and parties that have funds to invest. If a company needs more capital in order to grow, to build a new plant or to hire more employees, it calls in an investment bank. If a city needs money to improve its ailing infrastructure, it also goes to an investment bank...