Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from hopeful. General Mikhail Moiseyev, Chief of the Soviet General Staff, pledged last week that "not a single additional soldier" would be sent to the breakaway Baltic states, but that did not stop tensions from mounting in the region. Interior Ministry special forces seized Latvia's largest printing plant and brought publication of major newspapers in the republic to a virtual halt. Moscow officials said the raid in Riga was to recover Communist Party property, which was allegedly seized illegally by the republican government. In neighboring Lithuania, Interior Ministry troops took control of party headquarters, expelling local police units. Such...
...their heads. Public money paid slumlords $2,000 a month to put up families in "welfare hotels." But this did nothing to ease the families' desperation, fight their addictions or restore their dignity. The emergency shelters grew up like weeds in the cities because there was no time to plant anything else...
...instance, between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., the rate of fatigue-related accidents for single trucks is 10 times as high as the rate during the day. Experts say it is no surprise that the Exxon Valdez oil spill as well as the disasters at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island occurred after midnight, when distractions are few and operators are liable to be at their drowsiest...
Dumas is far from perfect: its students still test below the Illinois state average; its physical plant is fraying; services are bad. "They send me inferior hamburger, moldy bread, spoiled milk," fumes Peters. But Dumas, with its emphasis on bootstrap help, is light-years ahead of most black public schools in the U.S. "There are several hundred black schools in Chicago alone, and most of them are still doing terribly," says Gary Orfield, a visiting professor at Harvard's graduate school of education...
...nuclear Cassandras point out that Saddam possesses enough fissionable material to build a bomb: 27 lbs. of highly enriched U-235 taken from the Osirak plant's salvaged core, as well as about 20 lbs. of less pure fuel obtained earlier from the Soviets. That uranium could be used for an implosion bomb, similar to the one the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki...