Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't take much imagination for Reid to figure out possible sources of contamination. For 49 years, federal installations at Oak Ridge have manufactured the innards of nuclear bombs. In the process, the plants have produced -- and carelessly disposed of -- mountains of radioactive material and hazardous wastes. Even the U.S. government admits the Oak Ridge labs have littered the surrounding countryside with everything from asbestos and mercury to enriched uranium. The story is much the same at all the country's now notorious nuclear weapons plants, scattered from Hanford, Wash., to Los Alamos, N. Mex., to the Savannah River plant...
Such accidents are sometimes caused by an industrial plant's indiscriminate dumping of flammable waste products into the sewage system. Investigators in Guadalajara quickly focused on two possible culprits: a cooking-oil factory and a state-run petroleum facility...
...reinventing itself along more local and congenial lines. Unprecedented cooperation between business and unions, fostered by nine years of Labor Party government, has led to a sharp drop in industrial unrest and, more important, to dramatic changes in factory organization. When Joe Cummaudo started work in Ford's plastics plant in Melbourne in 1983, he recalls, workers and bosses ate in different canteens and management policy was "like handing out the strap back in school." Since the introduction in 1986 of an employee-involvement plan, Cummaudo says, he and fellow workers have thrived on the chance to develop greater independence...
...researchers transplanted the gene for PHB from the bacteria into relatives of the mustard plant. Using energy from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air, the plants manufactured significant amounts of phb. Unfortunately, the process also stunted their growth. But eventually, Poirier expects, scientists will learn how to regulate the hybridization procedure well enough to keep these plastic producers healthy, and perhaps one day alleviate guilt over discarded bottles and wrappers...
Taking advantage of the natural desire of people to see themselves as open-minded, revisionists also aim to plant a kernel of doubt within minds today so that future generations will question the unquestionable, creating an issue where one had never existed...