Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime-time cartoon show's evil power-plant owner with overbite, the dozing employees and a three-eyed fish named Blinky all have contributed to driving industry officials into a critical mass. But more than anything, Homer Simpson has them glowing under the collar...
...Council for Energy Awareness, an industry information group, told the "Simpsons" producers in a February letter it was horrified to see nuclear plant workers portrayed as "bungling idiots...
...idiot" on the council's list was Homer, father of the Simpson family and an employee of the fictitious Springfield nuclear plant. Homer seems to care less about safety than about naps, doughnuts and having enough tartar sauce for his fish sticks...
...various episodes, Homer gives away the plant's blueprints to a foreign exchange student, his boss tries to bribe a plant inspector with a bushel of cash, and three-eyed "Blinky" is found swimming near the plant...
REGIONAL SEPARATISM. Calls from republics and regions for greater political sovereignty have caused economic protectionism and strangled supply lines. The balance sheet at Moscow's No. 14 meat-packing plant tells the story. So far this year, the factory has received only 410 tons of meat, well short of the planned 2,920 tons. The Belorussians have sent 120 tons instead of 970. Nothing has come from Kazakhstan, Latvia or Lithuania. During the past nine months, the agricultural regions around Sverdlovsk have held back one-third of their scheduled deliveries of produce and sold the products on local markets...