Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study at the University of Arizona Cancer Center found that three to six months of daily beta carotene pills dramatically reduced precancerous mouth lesions in 70% of patients. Pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann- La Roche is so enamored with beta carotene that it plans to open a Freeport, Texas, plant next year that will churn out 350 tons of the nutrient annually, or enough to supply a daily 6 mg capsule to virtually every American adult...
...brothers, working by day at a meatpacking plant, form a dance orchestra called the Mambo Kings. They begin to achieve success, culminating with a lively appearance on the I Love Lucy show...
...response, the Administration argues that it has done as much as any government to fight global warming. Speaking at the preparatory meeting this ^ month, William Reilly, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, cited the strengthening of the Clean Air Act, Bush's promise to plant 1 billion trees a year and the EPA's Green Lights program, which helps state governments and corporations install energy-efficient lighting. Moreover, the U.S. has pledged to contribute $75 million to international funds designed to aid developing countries in efforts to reduce production of greenhouse gases. Reilly is convinced that the U.S. will sign...
...desk from Richard Nixon. It was a five-page document that Nixon had circulated to 50 power players. The former President claimed that the U.S. response to the Soviet meltdown was "pathetically inadequate," a "penny-ante game" that mocked Boris Yeltsin's do-or-die bid to plant democracy in Russia and could raise a devastating political debate over "Who lost Russia?" A bit alarmed, Bush called Nixon, who was headed toward Washington to speak on the same subject. Nixon, now a world statesman, told Bush not to worry; he was talking beyond personalities...
...billion more goods overseas than it bought, the biggest monthly surplus in history. Much of that excess capital should flow right back into the U.S. through purchases of stocks and bonds and by other forms of investments. Last week, for example, Sony began hiring for a TV-assembly plant it is opening this summer outside Pittsburgh that will eventually employ 1,000 people...