Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...canola. Earlier this year Dean Foods, a Virginia-based company, rolled out a margarine rich in canola. Next year Frito-Lay plans to introduce SunChips, corn chips fried in canola oil. This surge of interest has caused a boomlet in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, where growers are starting to plant acreage in the 5-ft., yellow-flowering rapeseed plants from which canola oil is derived...
...from rapeseed plants, a relative of mustard, has been consumed in Europe and Canada for decades, but not in the U.S., because it was suspected of causing heart abnormalities in rats. Rapeseed oil was relegated to American industrial uses, like lubricating heavy machinery or putting the shine in glossy paper. Oil from a new strain of the plant won FDA approval as a cooking oil in 1985. Even then, manufacturers had to label products, unappetizingly, as low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil. Finally, in 1988, the FDA allowed the product to be called by the name used in Canada, where most...
...swiftly escalated amid long- standing tensions between the News and its unions, which represent most of the paper's 2,700 employees. After a supervisor ordered a worker with a medical disability to stand up on the job last month, a group of union drivers walked out of the plant, providing an opportunity for management to replace them. The News, which last year began training nonunion replacement workers at sites in Florida and New Jersey, rushed a busload of substitute drivers to the scene. The next day the paper declared that 60 replaced drivers had lost their jobs. As word...
...also dismiss them as discrimination masquerading as compassion, a disguised way of keeping women out of more lucrative men's jobs. Critics of the fetal-protection policies also point out that toxic substances in the workplace may damage genes in male sperm. "A man or woman working in a plant should be told the dangers and make up their own minds," says Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women...
...Though not all of them had reached the top ranks, they were more than window dressing. By soliciting their views at such conferences, the company hopes it can root out biased attitudes and broaden its appeal to future workers. Du Pont, where Woolard started 33 years ago in a plant with a segregated cafeteria and where less than 20 years ago women with chemical-engineering degrees often started as secretaries, is learning how to change...