Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deserted stretch of shoreline on a radioactive lake is not the ideal place to argue the merits of building a new nuclear power plant. This may explain why V.I. Fetisov, director of the Mayak nuclear-waste processing plant near Chelyabinsk, had little to say to the large man with silvery hair and thundering voice. "It doesn't seem to me," said the presidential candidate, "that we should build a power station of the type they had in mind. Absolutely not. Do you want to stick an atom bomb right next to Chelyabinsk...
...responsibility for evil on a constricting planet changes moral contexts. Microevil, the murder of an individual child, becomes part of the macroorganism: all the evils breathe the same air, they have the same circulatory system. They pass through the arteries of the world, from the peasant's coca plant in Colombia to the mother's brain in Washington, thence to her fingers and the clothesline that kills the children in the middle of morning cartoons...
Even with the closing of a Lockheed manufacturing plant in Burbank last year and the loss of other industries to other Western cities, forecasters predict a net increase of new businesses in the five-county Los Angeles area in 1991. During the decade of the 1980s, in fact, 40% more businesses flocked to or were started up in L.A. than ran away, a burst of enterprise that covetous rival cities rarely match. Such economic success makes it easier for Los Angeles to endure its vile reputation. Says Mesa's Mayor Rubach with a shrug: "If we didn't also want...
...gentle nature and moral fiber and insist that he could not possibly have committed such a crime. Maybe the truth will come out in court -- but regardless of its finale, the case has shoved the debate over date rape into the minds of average men and women. Plant the topic in a conversation, and chances are it will ripen into a bitter argument or a jittery sequence of pale jokes...
...last year but withdrew his name and installed him at a lower level after he was criticized during confirmation hearings for his past performance at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Witnesses accused Stello of deliberately delaying a probe into health and safety procedures at a New York State nuclear-power plant...