Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently won a tough but deft battle against the drivers' and mailers' unions, which means that a new color-printing and distribution plant in New Jersey can begin operating. Those readers who managed to live through the Styles section will go into shock in the spring of 1993 when several of the Sunday sections go to color...
...meeting last January at which his father announced that his son would get the keys to the kingdom, the drama was heightened when the famous clock on the Times Building suddenly went dark. Now it is ticking again, as Sulzberger gallops out of the building, talking about the new plant, covering Brooklyn as thoroughly as Beirut, the outer suburbs to conquer, Pulitzers to win. Without a sigh -- he is not a sigher -- he turns down 43rd Street to catch the bus, and says, "I'm only 40. I've got time...
...conflict with the U.S., with its carpet- bombing and wholesale spraying of Agent Orange, was especially devastating. Thus it was something of a surprise that the first scientific foray deep into the Vu Quang Nature Reserve, near Laos, found what amounts to a "lost world" of animal and plant species...
Zenith Electronics, for example, the leading U.S. producer of television sets, has already moved many of its operations from Taiwan to Mexico, and two months ago closed its Asian assembly plant altogether. Without a Mexican base, Zenith guesses, it would have lost about 4,000 U.S. jobs from its Chicago circuit-board plant and its Missouri molding and assembly factory. Another 2,000 to 5,000 supplier jobs would have vanished as well...
...Waxahachie, Texas, he lobbied for reinstatement of the $8.2 billion superconducting-supercollider research project, which would create more than 7,000 jobs nationwide. By an awkward coincidence, however, General Dynamics had one day earlier announced that it would lay off 5,800 workers from its F-16 fighter plant in nearby Fort Worth...