Word: plante
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...lifestyle is an invitation to RSI. Repetitive strain injury has long been associated with blue-collar jobs that required excessive force, awkward posture and repetitive actions -- like driving the same kind of screw hour after hour in an assembly line or slicing carcasses all day in a meat- processing plant. For the delicate muscles and tendons in the fingers and wrists, rapidly pushing buttons thousands of times an hour can be just as stressful. "When you're working eight hours a day at the same task, you're essentially an athlete," says Dr. Emil Pascarelli, director of ambulatory care...
...TIME Board of Economists predicted that the upturn will spread its benefits more broadly next year as companies reinvest their profits in plant and equipment that creates new jobs. That should help raise standards of living from Boston to Burbank, the economists said. "For Main Street America," Sinai declared, "the best is yet to come...
With polls indicating voter support for congressional Democratic candidates to be at a historic low -- and the Governors aren't doing much better -- President Clinton ventured out of the White House to begin stumping for his party's revival. At a rally at a Ford assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan, the President unfurled the aggressive political message he intends to press in the month ahead: Democrats propose "a covenant for the future" that will offer more jobs, a lower deficit and better education while Republicans would return to the "trickle-down" policies of the past. Republicans scoffed at the President...
Eight years ago, after the closing of GM's Fisher Body plant, Michael Moore's sarcastic film Roger & Me portrayed Flint as a dying community. But since then U.S. automakers have turned themselves from the world's highest- cost producers to those with the lowest costs: only $42 in wages for each $100 in product turned out, about a third below Toyota or Mercedes-Benz. They have won back so many motorists who once bought foreign cars that the share of the U.S. market going to imported autos has fallen from 22% in 1991 to under 14% now. Profits...
...voters, especially when every other candidate is doing it. The result is that they all contribute to a downward spiral, a free-for-all of Congress-bashing similar to small children ravishing an apple tree for the most apples, only to find that they've destroyed the entire plant...