Word: plante
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More than 5000 kinds of plants are cultivated in the collections, with more than 15,000 individual plants, making it the largest and best documented woody plant collection in North America. Special collections include lilacs and bonsai...
...Workers who try to organize face a 60 percent chance of plant closure... and possible capital flight to a foreign market," she said. "Globalization is used as a hammer to hit workers over the head when they try to do something good in the domestic economy...
Healthy margarine? U.S. scientists confirmed last week that a margarine called Benecol, sold in Finland, reduces cholesterol. It's formulated with natural cholesterol-lowering compounds known as plant sterols. Just 1 1/2 tsp. a day lowers total count 9% and bad LDL cholesterol 14%. Expect the spread here by early...
...decide the merits of the issues which face us, especially when they make their decisions immediately after the events occur. Our country would have benefited greatly from further debate on the air strikes, for example, especially in light of recent evidence suggesting that the alleged Sudanese chemical weapons plant may have been merely a benign pharmaceutical factory. The moral questions arising from this type of aggressive counter-terrorism response are difficult to answer, and we will probably face them again in the near future. But, since the media portrayed the question simply as whether a majority of Americans would support...
...Clinton himself, says Stogel, relations between the U.N. and the U.S. have rarely been worse. Republicans in Congress still refuse to pay the U.S.' dues; the nomination of Richard Holbrooke as ambassador to the U.N. is in grave trouble; and U.S. pronouncements about the so-called chemical weapons plant in Sudan are being scrutinized by the Security Council. But that doesn't mean they don't like Bill. "The diplomats respect him as an individual," says Stogel. "So there was melancholy in the air Monday. That ovation could be taken as a last farewell." Perhaps it's a good thing...