Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luckily for Washington, Sudan has no powerful friends. Lawyers hired by Salih Idris, owner of the Shifa pharmaceuticals factory destroyed by U.S. missiles last August have assembled scientific evidence to back their claim that the U.S. targeted the plant in error. But thus far nobody in Washington is listening...
...consequences of randomization must be dealt with adequately. If students are going to be randomly assigned housing, then every student should have equal access to equal facilities, both in the physical plant and the tutorial staff. Universal keycard access and a cluster system of sharing house facilities--such as athletic and artistic space--should be the first steps in solving this problem...
...Saturdays and could be counted on the rest of the week to dole out assignments, advice and M&M's. Her efficiency and omniscience lent order to an often chaotic office. "Marta was involved in every step we took each week, from the reporting to transmitting pages to the plants. We're holding our breath to see if we'll get out our next issue," says managing editor Walter Isaacson. "I had a great run," says Dorion. "I've been exhausted, thrilled and cranky, but never bored. I'll miss the wonderful friends I've made, but there are books...
Citing examples such as Coca-Cola's $35 million production and distribution plant in Angola and clothing company The Limited, Inc.'s plan to develop stores in Mauritius and Madagascar, Rice urged her listeners, most of whom were originally from Africa, to take their business know-how back to their communities...
...developing world. The USDA and Delta and Pine Land have filed Terminator patent applications in dozens of countries. In many of those countries farmers can't afford to buy top-of-the-line seeds every year and must rely on saving a portion of each crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts of the world where food bowls are going empty. "This technology brings no benefit to farmers," says Hope Shand...