Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his new administrative structures in place, Bok could work on expanding the University's financial coffers and physical plant. And the resulting stability allowed Bok to work on educational reforms, as well...
There was also more than a little friction. Bieber had routinely voted against raises for top executives. In 1989 Chrysler management enraged the union boss by concealing from him plans to close a Detroit plant...
First in line for a new lease on life is the oldest commercial reactor in the U.S., the 30-year-old Yankee nuclear power plant in Rowe, Mass. "Yankee Rowe" reliably produces more than 1 billion kW-h of electricity a year -- about one-sixth the capacity of its more modern counterparts -- and boasts an excellent safety record. However, after decades of absorbing the high- energy neutrons that are released during nuclear reactions, the walls of Yankee Rowe's reactor vessel have begun to weaken. Just how much is not clear. This so-called reactor embrittlement is potentially the most...
...because the utility has run out of easily accessible test samples of the original steel used in building the vessel. Ideally, such samples are periodically examined for hidden cracks, allowing scientists to determine how much embrittlement has occurred. Although Randall's opinion was a minority view, it electrified the plant's critics. The utility has promised to take new weld samples from within the reactor vessel sometime next year...
...fill-up. Miles ahead of its time, the Impact is an electric car that runs on 32 10-volt batteries. Since it burns no fuel, no tail pipes emit noxious fumes into the atmosphere. Though the car is experimental, GM last week announced it would produce it in a plant that can turn out 25,000 autos a year, signaling the company's most ambitious venture yet in electric vehicles...