Word: plante
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drugs be an inch-long, greenish-white beastie with a taste for coca leaves? The idea of bombarding the high mountain valleys of Bolivia and Peru with millions of eggs from the malunya moth, which in its caterpillar stage loves to munch on the foliage of the cocaine- producing plant, got a lot of play in Washington last week...
...invaluable skill. Henderson puts an environmental spin on his aesthetic sense, and while he is a leader, he is not alone in this. Ever the magpie, fashion has caught on to ecology. "Le look vegetal" is popular in Paris, where earth colors and materials like fake hemp and mock plant stems are making news. In Henderson's case, the affinity to natural colors probably predates environmental zeal. "I like fruit tones, wood, stones," he says. "I keep beautiful rocks around, and I dry flowers to see which shades will emerge...
Last week Perrier announced that it was recalling its product worldwide, having already reclaimed 72 million bottles from stores and restaurants in North America. Reason: traces of benzene, a known carcinogen, had been found in the water, first in the U.S., then at the very plant where the water is bottled in Vergeze, France. Yuppies shuddered, bartenders flinched, lime futures tumbled and normally well-hydrated joggers faced desiccation rather than switch to Schweppes. To the true believers, those who used it to spray their camellias or rinse their lingerie or boil fusilli or water their Scotch, there could...
...VectraCavalier, meanwhile, was the result of a vastly different reorganization. GM Europe entered the 1980s as a patchwork of competing and often uncooperative concerns stretching from the company's new small-car plant near Zaragoza, Spain, to its aging Vauxhall factories in Luton and Ellesmere Port, England. Before the reorganization, GM Europe was very much a West German-led company. The first goal of the restructuring was to broaden its character, so in 1986 the company moved its headquarters to neutral Zurich. There an amazingly lean head-office staff proceeded to coax the diverse GM Europe factions into cooperating with...
...unconfirmed reports is common to all news | organizations, but it is especially acute for CNN. The network's instant worldwide reach (it is beamed officially to 89 countries and watched by many world leaders) has made CNN a conduit for governments and individuals who want to spread news -- or plant leaks. When the U.S. invaded Panama in December, the first Soviet protest was delivered not to the U.S. embassy but to a CNN crew. This role makes it essential that CNN be especially alert to the possibility of being manipulated. "We are well aware of our responsibilities," says Turner...