Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India skyscraper, Bombay police traced the ownership of vehicles used in the attacks to one of the city's main Muslim underworld families, the Memons. The six Memon brothers fled to Dubai shortly before the explosions, but police managed to arrest two hirelings who were allegedly paid $167 to plant some of the bombs...
...team, relied on the data streaming down from Hubble. By comparing images of stars with optical theory, the researchers could calculate the apparent distortion of Hubble's mirror. Their work was confirmed by the "fossil record" team, which went back to the source of the flawed mirror, a Connecticut plant now owned by Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. (At the time of the manufacturing mistake, the facility was part of Perkin-Elmer Corp.) Like archaeologists looking for the missing link, the optical sleuths pored over the blueprints and tools used to make the mirror. Eventually, they zeroed in on a complex...
Michael Griffin, 31, had not awakened that morning at all -- he had just come off a 12-hr. shift at the local Monsanto chemical plant -- but he too seemed in high spirits. He arrived at the same complex that morning to pay a neurology bill for the treatment of his older daughter's headaches. "He was just fine," says receptionist Dee Slack, who told him that that day was her 34th birthday. "We joked because I had forgotten, not my birthday, but the date of it." Griffin then picked up a drink at the Circle K and walked toward...
Funds for a new treatment plant would come from increased water rates, Barnes says...
...things everyone has come to face is the fact that with $40,000 [for a new plant], we can put out better water," says Barnes. She says the current facility has structural problems...