Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second night of Chanukkah, my boyfriend gave me a plant. It is one of the best presents I have ever gotten...
...anyone else had given me any other plant, it would have meant almost nothing. I'm not particularly a plant fan. It's the story behind the gift that makes it special...
...about a week after the opening of a new florist near Quincy House, I admired a plant in the window. It was little--modest, even--but lush in a way, and I wanted it for my room...
Only about 50 U.S. companies currently have a benefits policy comparable to Apple's, yet some local officials and business leaders were worried that the vote would send a negative signal to other firms. "We needed that plant," says Round Rock Mayor Charlie Culpepper. "Families need jobs, but government needs to stay out of business." While Governor Ann Richards urged the company to consider other sites in Texas, proposals for tax breaks and cheap real estate poured in from all over the state, including Waco, Gainesville and one other place: a parcel of land in Dallas offered...
...expose came on Nov. 7, when the Sunday Mirror published a series of photos, ostensibly taken through a hidden camera, of the svelte princess working out at London's LA Fitness Club. Though Diana lividly decried this invasion of her privacy, there were those who thought they saw a plant. The pictures were supposedly snapped sometime last summer; yet they mysteriously appeared on the front pages the very week that Charles was making a high- profile trip through Arab states. Diana appears utterly poised, even posed. Could she actually stoop to stealing the limelight that has always been hers...