Word: plante
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George Bush, who said he wanted to be an environmental President, is making trees a kind of fetish of his Administration. In his budget submitted last week, Bush allotted $175 million to plant 1 billion trees this year. By the year 2000 there should be 10 billion new trees that eventually should absorb 13 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, or 5% of the nation's annual emissions...
Some environmentalists applaud the flexibility that such a program would give industry. A plant found to be violating air-quality standards would not have to shut down immediately if its owner could buy time by obtaining extra pollution permits. Observes Daniel Dudek, an economist with the Environmental Defense Fund: "The beauty of this approach is that it provides environmental performance without great bloodletting in the economy...
Roger & Me, Moore's puckish chronicle of the impact of GM plant closings on the people of Flint, has provoked raves and outrages at film festivals, in movie theaters and especially in the city where it was filmed. Last week, when Moore was the guest on Phil Donahue's talk show, Whiting Auditorium was packed with every species of Flint citizen except GM executives; they were busy warning their ad agencies against placing spots on those Donahue episodes. Slouched in a center-stage chair, Moore got an earful from the audience. Some came to pick nits and fights. Said...
...produce without bruising it. They have taught Soviet cattle farmers that they can raise leaner beef by castrating their cattle a month later than usual and slaughtering them a month earlier. To maintain food standards and keep the supply flowing, the company has built a $40 million food-distribution plant just outside Moscow, with its own bakery, dairy and meat-processing units as well as a microbiology...
...German decisions concerning Berlin. The rights are resented even if they go unused, as has been the case with death sentences, and more so when used, as happened in 1988 when a U.S. eavesdropping operation exposed the fact that a West German firm was helping build a poison-gas plant in Libya...