Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased with the first-rate report on the economic viability of solar and wind power and electric vehicles [BUSINESS, Dec. 15], but I was disappointed that the excellent environmental benefits of ethanol were not mentioned. America already produces large volumes of this renewable, clean-burning liquid fuel from plants, including grains such as corn. Tomorrow new processes and technologies will enable us to produce this high-quality fuel from a wide range of plant feed stocks at prices competitive with those of gasoline. In conjunction with fuel cells, ethanol will let us reduce our need for imported oil and dramatically...
...produce shorts as quickly and cheaply as an American company in Quitman, Ga. U.S. manufacturers have hooked up computerized counters to sewing machines so they can monitor how quickly each seamstress joins two pieces of fabric. Not only does that give instant feedback on productivity, but the new, networked plant also cuts down on the number of supervisors on the cutting-room floor...
...York Botanical Garden London's Crystal Palace is gone, but this turn-of-the-century greenhouse in the Bronx is alive and glinting. To restore this sizable jewel box, which showcases an indoor spectacle of plant life, required 17,000 new panes of glass. The firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, which also restored Ellis Island and Grand Central Terminal, gives back to America one more piece of its indispensable but fragile past...
...Ikea: "OR" Want to turn forbidding places into comfortable living spaces? Watch Ikea's men in white redo an operating room. The cardiac monitor looks just fabulous in the entertainment center. And that plant on the IV-drip stand is another deft designer touch...
...used to have a nice small town here. Then the neighboring town of Guymon decided to have a pig processor move its plant there. We will soon have 4 million hogs in our backyard, and the resulting sewage from them will be dumped into open pits. Sort of ruins the neighborhood and the small-town atmosphere, if you know what I mean. DON UKENS Hooker, Okla...