Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those alternatives vanished last week as Ross Perot shut down his campaign with all the brutality of a plant manager pink-slipping loyal workers at Christmas. His method confirmed the worst assessments of his character. Without warning, Perot stranded the millions who had poured themselves into his effort, whom he had repeatedly promised to "serve" selflessly if only they would follow his lead...
...traps. Tucker and three sons fish from Quidi Vidi, one of more than 300 fishing villages on the rocky coast of Newfoundland. The ban, which will cost the province of 568,000 two-fifths of its annual fishing revenues, has idled 10,000 fishermen as well as 10,000 plant workers. The federal government is paying each worker a skimpy $188 a week for 10 weeks until longer adjustment programs can be devised. What went wrong? Says Tucker: "Overfishing, the gold-rush attitude that all fishermen have...
...most of its bumpy, 10-year history, General Motors' Saturn project was derided by auto-industry critics as a $5 billion ugly duckling -- an experimental, money-losing attempt to match the value and quality of import models. To ensure customer satisfaction, Saturn built cars at its all-new plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., with the crawly pace of a craft shop. It also gained something of a quirky reputation for recalling them at the tiniest hitch...
...Cogen" plants produce power by burning oil, natural gas or coal, translated into electricity or steam. The CSX Greenbrier project was designed to burn both oil and Otisca Fuel to produce electricity for Virginia Electric & Power, the local utility. Even if they don't get federal assistance, Shelor hopes to build the Greenbrier plant. Alternatively, he and Smith are discussing a deal that would use coal wastes to make Otisca Fuel as a direct substitute for No. 6 fuel oil. The prospect of making money the old-fashioned way, by earning it through the sale of cogenerated power...
...that Otisca was born at the wrong time in the wrong place. Other technologies and energy sources may leapfrog over the concept of a precleaned coal slurry. In that case, the Jamesville plant, Doug Keller and Clay Smith will be a brief, forgotten chapter in American industrial and environmental history. That would not be atypical. Nine out of 10 inventors never see a penny from their ideas. Far fewer get to be Henry Fords or Thomas Watsons...