Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HSCT. Rival U.S. aircraft builders Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have teamed up to design an airframe, as have British Aerospace and France's Aerospatiale, the same partnership that built the Concorde. American jet-engine builder Pratt & Whitney is working closely with its nemesis, General Electric, to build a power plant that is quieter, more economical and clean burning. France's Snecma and Britain's Rolls-Royce have launched a similar joint project. Gulfstream, which makes business jets, is working with British and Russian designers to build a 19-passenger supersonic business jet. "Our clients will pay almost anything...
...Harlot's body has washed up in Chesapeake Bay, most of his head blown away by a shotgun blast. Who killed Harlot? Himself? The KGB? A rogue enclave within the CIA that is now on its way to murder Harry? Still another possibility exists: the body was an elaborate plant and Harlot is happily on his way to Moscow, bearing a career's worth of invaluable secrets...
...parts of the splintering Soviet Union lurched uncertainly toward free enterprise last week, some U.S. firms rushed to set up shop. After three years of negotiation, Kellogg said it will build a plant in newly independent Latvia to produce cornflakes and Frosted Flakes. Kellogg plans to market the brands in the Baltics and the Soviet Union. "Whatever form the Soviet Union takes, we believe the republics are headed in the right direction," a Kellogg spokesman said...
Alas, some of the secrets of the male house remain lost. During his initiation, N'donazi recalls, he was given a plant to chew that numbed the pain of the incision. He wistfully notes that he has not since been able to find that natural anesthetic...
Balick walks tropical forests with shamans in Latin America as part of a study, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, designed to uncover plants useful in the treatment of AIDS and cancer. The 5,000 plants collected so far, says the NCI's Gordon Cragg, have yielded some promising chemicals. If any of them turn out to be useful as medicines, the country from which the plant came would get a cut of the profits...