Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SEABROOK, N.H.--All was quiet yesterday on the windswept marshes that separate this tiny town's nuclear power plant from the Atlantic Ocean...
...that debate has caused considerable political fallout. In 1976, a Georgia governor named Jimmy Carter, a virtual unknown in New Hampshire, opposed the plant and gained enough votes from liberal anti-nuclear voters to win the primary by a narrow margin. In 1980, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) boosted his ultimately unsuccessful campaign by stealing the issue back from the incumbent president...
...even though every legal challenge to the plant had been exhausted, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis made his opposition to the plant a campaign issue and walked away with the nomination...
...smart looks that drew attention so much as it was the new automobile's parenthood. The 626 may well become the first U.S. import brand to qualify under Environmental Protection Agency standards as an "American" product. Not only will U.S. workers at Mazda's Flat Rock, Mich., plant assemble the automobile, but 75% of its total content will be American-made...
...stratosphere, and it drifts down from there to the lower atmosphere rather than the other way around. The energy that would be needed to move the ozone up is about 2 1/2 times all of our current global power use. If you could take every power plant in the world, every piece of coal and every oil tanker, the energy would be insufficient -- and then you'd still have the problem of how to get the ozone up there...