Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judging from his background, Shakur might have been a shooter no matter what career he had pursued. In a sense he was doing time even before he was born. His mother Afeni is a former Black Panther, one of a group accused in the early 1970s of conspiring to plant bombs in New York. Though eventually acquitted, she spent part of her pregnancy in a jail cell awaiting trial. Shakur's father was shot to death not long after being released from prison. Shakur "would have been even quicker to use a gun if he didn't have an album...
...Mexicans develop a growing taste for American goods. Procter & Gamble first exported Pringles potato crisps to Mexico in 1991 and expects to sell more than $5 million worth of the snacks there next year. When Dell Computer began assembling personal computers in Mexico 18 months ago, its new plant promptly shattered the company's record for sales growth. Dell expects annual sales of the Mexican unit to continue to grow by at least 50% over the next few years. "The Mexican economy is becoming more robust and information-focused," says Brian Wood, Dell's vice president for global operations...
...other sites elsewhere. At a 5-MW power reactor whose fuel core could be mined for plutonium to make bombs, IAEA inspectors are not being allowed to reload spent surveillance cameras. Three smaller research facilities due for inspection have been off limits since May 1992. A uranium fuel-fabrication plant slated for examination every three months has not been seen for more than a year. Last August, when IAEA officials visited the plutonium-reprocessing plant at Yongbyon, they were allowed in only at night, with all the lights turned off, peering through the 600-ft. building with what one Western...
Previous laws prohibited demonstrators from obstructing entrances to any facilities, punishing violators equally whether they blocked a nuclear power plant, a factory or an abortion clinic. Pines' bill would be perfectly acceptable if it raised punishments across the board, for all offenders. It doesn...
...than actions. Animal rights advocates, AIDS activists and striking labor unions engage in activities similar to anti-abortion demonstrators. Yet those protesting abortion rights will now be put away for up to 2.5 years and fined up to $5,000, while their colleagues blocking the entrance to a power plant get a maximum of six months and only $1,000 in fines...