Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leeches are nothing, I decided, compared to the horrors of the stinging tree. The plant has big enticingly soft leaves. But those fuzzy leaves are covered with fine spines that stick in your skin if you even think about walking near the plant...
...Vilnius fuel-machinery plant, he spied a sign in Russian reading not more rights but full independence. "Who gave you that?" Gorbachev challenged a Lithuanian welder. When the worker replied that he had made the sign, Gorbachev switched to a softer approach, commending the man on his grasp of Russian. But the worker would have none of Gorbachev's compliments. "You don't think we know how to write in Russian?" he challenged. "We can read and speak Russian too, while there are lots of Russians who can't speak a word of Lithuanian...
...billion that Marcos is said to have looted from the treasury, the commission has recovered nearly $1 billion so far but has been accused of abusing its powers. In one case, for example, Ricardo ("Baby") Lopa, an Aquino brother-in-law who controlled a profitable Nissan auto- assembly plant and 38 other companies before they were seized by the Marcos regime in the early 1970s, was allowed to buy the firms back for only $227,000 within days after Aquino became President. A public outcry forced the commission to re-examine the deal with Lopa, who died of cancer last...
...hold the line by refusing to pay for some high-priced nostrums. Corporations with major medical bills are taking their own cost- control approach. General Motors has started direct negotiations with pharmaceutical firms to lower prescription-drug rates, and Rockwell International has opened its own pharmacy at an Iowa plant. "We're seeing the leveling out of the market power between purchasers and producers," says Stephen Schondelmeyer, director of the Pharmaceutical Economic Research Center at Purdue University in Lafayette...
While the great cold stimulated heating demand, there were significant crimps in supply. U.S. production was severely impaired when a Dec. 24 explosion damaged the second largest refinery in the country, an Exxon plant in Baton Rouge, La., that normally processes 455,000 bbl. of crude a day. The accident, probably caused by a spark that ignited hydrocarbons released from a pipe, killed two workers and injured seven others. Company officials announced that the facility will partly reopen this week. Other installations also suffered shutdowns: Shell Oil closed two gasoline refineries in Texas and Louisiana and curtailed operations...