Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...median $69,000 price for a single-family home is about 30% below the U.S. average. At the same time, aggressive promotion has helped Houston keep its newcomers close to home. When fast-growing Compaq Computer hinted that it might pick another locale for a 4,000-worker plant expansion, community leaders assembled a $7.7 million package of tax abatements, bus service and access roads that won Compaq over...
...economic union with West Germany, which takes effect July 1, has made East Germany (pop. 16.6 million) particularly attractive to Western companies. The investors include Pilz, a West German audio firm that is building a compact- disc plant as part of a $140 million venture with East Germany's Robotron. The factory will have the capacity to press 24 million CDs a year when it opens...
Like Pilz, many companies view East Germany as an extension of the West German market. The U.S. consumer-products giant Philip Morris plans to produce 10 million cigarettes a year at a Dresden plant that the company is acquiring from VEB Kombinat Tabak, East Germany's state-owned tobacco company. "We really don't consider East Germany part of Eastern Europe," says John Dollisson, a Philip Morris vice president. "Selling in Dresden should be the same as selling in Munich or Hamburg...
...aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that...
...begin selling its own cosmopolitan contender, the Mercury Capri. The car's body was designed in Italy, and its engine and chassis were developed jointly by Ford and Mazda. The Detroit automaker has a 25% stake in the Japanese company. The convertible, which will be built at a Ford plant near Melbourne, will be the first Australian-made car sold in the U.S. The Capri takes dead aim at the Miata. While the Mazda has rear-wheel drive and two seats, the Mercury offers front-wheel drive and a small backseat. Ford has priced the Capri slightly below its rival...