Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Energy Secretary James Watkins, who oversees the nation's problem-plagued government nuclear facilities, insists that employees who go public with charges of plant-safety problems are free to blow the whistle without fear of reprisal. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way for Charles ("Bud") Varnadore, a technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Varnadore, 50, suffers from colon cancer and underwent 52 weeks of chemotherapy. After he appeared on a CBS news program in March 1991 to talk about a study that showed suspiciously high rates of cancer among workers at the facility, his bosses assigned...
Last week the Labor Department upheld Varnadore's claim that the plant managers at Oak Ridge, which is operated for the government by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, had acted in retaliation against Varnadore for his complaints. The company plans to appeal the decision. So does Varnadore, who is also looking for $1.5 million in damages...
Marshall told me that at the Cambridge plant, there are about fifty sayings printed on the hearts. Sayings are changed from time to time, he said, but not for any particular reason. And when I asked Marshall whether the sayings were meant to be ambiguous, he chucked a little and told me, "You're trying to put too much into the slogans...People think we stay up all night thinking of the sayings...
...America campaign may be simple. The larger context is not. During the week that anti-Japanese protests took place in Louisville, Toyota announced yet another $90 million plant expansion there, which would add 200 more jobs to the local economy. Total Japanese employment in the U.S. has risen to 600,000, nearly 400,000 in the manufacturing sector, while Japanese investors continue to hold $180 billion of the nation's mountain of debt paper, 30 times as much as the Germans...
...confusion, many products with Japanese names are actually made in America. According to The New York Times, nearly 40 percent of Honda, Toyota and Nissan cars are assembled inside the United States, in American factories, by American workers. Are the 4,850 American jobs at the $1.2 billion Nissan plant in Sparta, Tennessee, worth less than jobs of General Motors workers in Detroit...