Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy of the government for the entire duration of the National Institutesof Health program has been to provide for fullrecovery, and this is particularly true forphysical plant costs and the upkeep of equipmentand research," he said. "I hope we can moverapidly towards a time when these costs are fullyreimbursed...
...very frightening," says Richard Whitehead, 45, a machinist and layoff victim at the company's Pratt & Whitney jet-engine plant. "When you're told that your job is lost, your feelings just go cold. For my trade," he adds, "there's nothing else out there. I don't know what...
...Vincent had softened his position, his initial reaction reflected the nation's mood. In Japan- battered Michigan, where antagonism runs deep among autoworkers, U.A.W. Local 900 in Wayne made its own small stand for America last week, pushing foreign cars to a back parking lot at the local Ford plant. Around the nation, companies are offering incentives to workers who buy American cars. Monsanto, for example, will pay $1,000 to every one of its 12,000 workers who buys a car made in North America (or in one of Japan's American factories, such as Honda's Ohio plant...
...statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending led to plant closures. Industrial output fell 0.2% last month, and shrank by 1.9% in 1991, the first yearly decline since the 1981-82 recession. One piece of good news did emerge. The weak economy managed to contain inflation. Consumer prices rose a modest 3.1% in 1991, the lowest in five years...
...drawn up a list of those the U.S. would like to see stay put. Part of the $400 million appropriated by Congress for nuclear-disarmament assistance may go for salaries for the key wizards. Sort of like a high-stakes version of paying American farmers not to plant crops...