Word: plante
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Tsongas' emphasis on manufacturing colors his tax-break ideas for business. To encourage companies to make immediate investments in new plant and equipment, he advocates a one-year tax credit that would cost $5 billion. Clinton calls instead for a permanent investment credit for small and medium- size companies that would cost $2 billion a year. Both candidates would make permanent an existing 20% tax credit for research and development that expires...
Cheap cash also allowed Japanese companies to fund costly research into technologies like semiconductors and liquid crystal displays that weren't likely to bring returns for many years to come. From 1986 to 1991, $3 trillion was spent on new plant and equipment, including robotics and other labor- saving manufacturing devices. An additional $600 billion went for research and development. And $167 billion more went abroad to build new manufacturing facilities and purchase such assets as Rockefeller Center, Columbia Pictures and automobile plants in the U.S. and England. But by 1989 there was concern in Japan that this real estate...
Bright orange tongues of flame roared on the TV screens placed about the stage during "Bullet the Blue Sky," serving as a forceful visual representation of the lyrics: "Plant a demon seed/ You raise a flower of fire/ See them burning crosses/ See the flames higher and higher...
Environmentalists argued that market forces have led to the elimination of the rain forests and increased steel and farm production. The free market has contributed to the loss of hundreds of animal and plant species, as well as to the rapid increase in the output of CO2 and PCP's into the environment, they said...
South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings jumped on the Japan-bashing bandwagon in grand -- and tasteless -- style last week. Speaking to a group of workers at a home-state roller-bearing manufacturing plant, the loose-tongued 70-year-old Democrat said he had a message for Japanese officials who have questioned the competence of the U.S. work force. He advised them to think of the atomic mushroom cloud and recall that it was "made in America by illiterate Americans and tested in Japan...