Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That they do is largely a tribute to Daren Firestone and Nora Dicke, who play the unlikely protagonists who fall in love while working in a plant shop. Firestone is perfect as the nerdy nice guy Seymour who dreams of a life beyond Mr. Mushnik's plant shop. "I've given you sunshine, I've given you dirt/you've given me nothing but heartache and hurt," he sings plaintively to the strange plant "Audrey II" in his first number. Firestone has a good voice and is convincing in his later scenes of moral crisis...
...have hit hardest in Lithuania, where sparring between nationalists and the conservative Democratic Labor Party has often paralyzed economic reform. Because Russia cut off fuel supplies for much of the summer, reserves in Lithuania have run alarmingly low. The country also relies on the dangerously designed Ignalina nuclear-power plant for virtually all its electrical energy; several minor accidents have sparked fears of another Chernobyl. Angered by rising prices and political gridlock, voters were ready to give another chance to Algirdas Brazauskas, the Communist Party chief who broke with Moscow in 1989 and supported independence...
...Chernobyl the concern is even more immediate. There is ever-present danger in the operation of reactor No. 3 too. Despite a government plan to shut down the entire plant, No. 3 was reactivated after officials pleaded that its energy was essential for the coming winter. Like its ruined twin, No. 3 is ; considered fundamentally unsafe by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It may be even more so now: many Russian operators have returned home, leaving a reactor run by Ukrainians who are ill-trained, badly paid and demoralized...
...January, the result has been a bundle of contradictions. In the industrial city of Rostov, the mammoth Rostselmash factory still makes grain harvesters that no one wants. The clunkers lose up to 15% of the grain as they pound rich topsoil into brick-hard earth. Yet Yeltsin visited the plant last summer and personally guaranteed tens of millions of rubles in state credits to keep the communist relic afloat...
Colleges face the very difficult challenge ofkeeping costs down in an enterprise that purchasesgoods and services whose prices increase at ratesmuch higher than inflation--goods such as newcomputer systems and physical plant renovations...