Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...payroll, and that was 24 years ago. Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, 80, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has been in Congress since 1941. The average conferee has been cashing those beige federal paychecks like clockwork for better than 20 years: no worries about Chapter 11 bankruptcies, layoffs, plant closings, Social Security taxes, insurance costs...
GEMACHT IN THE U.S.A. Worried about Japanese entries into the luxury car market, BMW will abandon a 40-year tradition of crafting cars exclusively in West Germany. American suppliers have been told that the company plans to open an assembly plant in the U.S. in the mid-1990s to cut delivery time. But will a BMW not built in Bavaria have the same snob appeal...
President George Bush's promise to plant a billion trees ((ENVIRONMENT, April 30)) sounds impressive. But the mortality of seedlings reduces the total of trees that survive the first few years. And each year older forests are diminished because of fire, insects, disease and harvesting by man. It is not important how many trees are planted, but rather how much forest area is regenerated relative to how much is cut or lost owing to natural causes...
Having worked as a tree planter in Canada, I would like to put in perspective Union Carbide's commitment to plant half a million trees by the year 2000 ((EARTH DAY, April 23)). In Ontario a crew of 40 workers can plant 50,000 trees in a day. In ten days they can achieve what Union Carbide has promised to do in ten years...
...plant's output showed that this hypothesis was unfounded. More important, the aviation industry switched from rayon cord to metallic cord. Whatever rationale the Baikal complex may once have had -- and it never offset the potential harm to the lake -- vanished. Construction nevertheless went ahead, with whole armies of officials defending their decision and saving face by insisting on the complex's importance for the defense of the country, the usual clinching argument...