Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sturdy and steady company town--until about 10 years ago. Willar had worked his way up to the position of engineer, proudly receiving excellent evaluations. Josephine, a senior computer programmer, relished her white-collar job. Their employer was the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., a sprawling nuclear-processing plant where the Federal Government stores some 35 million gal. of radioactive waste. It was the largest employer in South Carolina, and the jobs paid well. The Hightowers saw themselves as team players, partakers in the co-prosperity of a racially segregated but placid Southern town. Says Willar Hightower: "People...
...core of The Simpsons, which was created by newspaper cartoonist Matt Groening as crudely drawn filler material for the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, then went weekly in 1990. A Honeymooners with kids, the series features a man in a deadening blue-collar job (Homer, the nuclear-plant safety inspector), his epochally exasperated wife (Marge of the mountainous blue hair) and three conflicted kids. Bart, 10, is clever and cunning but addled in class; Lisa, 8, is a near genius whose intelligence deprives her of friends; year-old Maggie expresses frazzled wisdom beyond her years with the merest suck...
...addition to expanding the number of customers who rely on MATEP, Commonwealth Energy will seek to introduce technological improvements to the plant, according to a news release announcing the transfer...
University officials said that a key factor in Harvard's decision to sell the plant was the recent deregulation of the electricity industry which has allowed Harvard to buy electricity at lower prices...
...plant is considered one of the most environmentally sound power plants in New England. It uses the energy wasted from one conversion process to produce another form of energy...