Word: plante
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...standard (750- ml) bottle of wine. Pessimists in the industry predict that the increase could reduce wine consumption by 12% and lead to the loss of 7,000 jobs. The tax hike comes at a time when many growers are also worried about phylloxera, a mite-size plant louse that is gnawing away at vines, primarily in Napa and Sonoma counties. An estimated 250 acres have been affected so far, and replanting with new phylloxera-resistant vines may cost upwards of $250 million in Napa Valley alone...
Even as GM braked, Toyota shifted into high gear. The Japanese firm announced an $800 million expansion that will nearly double the capacity of its two-year-old Georgetown, Ky., complex, which now produces 230,000 mid-size Camrys a year. Toyota said the expansion will increase the plant's work force of 3,450 by more than 40% when the new facility opens in 1993. Along with an expansion under way in Fremont, Calif., the move will double Toyota's annual U.S. plant capacity to 600,000 cars and trucks...
...that tradition, General Motors acknowledged last week that it was likely to report an operating loss for the fourth quarter, its first such deficit in four years. The world's largest auto company had operating income of $109 million in the third quarter before a $2.1 billion charge for plant closings pushed it into the red. GM attributed its latest problems to slack demand that has led the company to reduce its fourth-quarter car and truck production in the U.S. and Canada by nearly 17% compared with the same period a year...
Because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Cardoen stands to lose millions. Since Chile is honoring the embargo against Baghdad, he was forced to cut off his lucrative contracts, the latest of which was for a $60 million plant in Iraq designed to produce fuses for bombs, artillery shells and rockets. The 31 Cardoen engineers who were working on the project have returned to Chile; it is not clear when, if ever, Cardoen will be paid. Cardoen also suffered a blow when U.S. officials refused to certify as airworthy his military adaptation of the Bell 206 helicopter, a move...
...Pakistan. To produce the 22 lbs. of fissionable material needed for a bomb, Iraq would need 1,000 operating centrifuges. Furthermore, since the centrifuges process the uranium in a "cascade" operation that requires multiple transfers of the gas, they would have to be sited in a single giant plant that could not be hidden. No such facility has been detected by U.S. spy satellites, and current intelligence estimates put the number of centrifuges acquired by Iran at about two dozen. With that number, says Mark Hibbs, European editor of Nucleonics Week, it would take eight to 10 years to produce...