Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wicked their crimes. In 1996, for example, Rockwell International was found guilty of causing an explosion that killed two company scientists. Pfizer manufactured a defective heart valve that caused 360 deaths worldwide. In all these cases, hefty fines were levied and stern statements were made, but no executive or plant manager spent so much as a night in the slammer...
...against the deal. He has dogged the heels of state bureaucrats to block Mettiki and its coal-carrying trucks from getting what the union miners consider regulatory breaks. He protested when the state issued new permits to allow for airborne dust generated by more truck traffic to the power plant; he protested when the state granted permission for Mettiki to use a private haul road, and he protested when it increased weight limits on public highways for the mine's trucks. Along with several state legislators and environmental groups, Leone and his fellow miners opposed West Virginia's preliminary decision...
...their jobs. It will be the latest in a series of hard-luck hits for the area, which lost 30 or 40 businesses, its only hospital and the CSX railroad when the Black Fork River flooded in 1985. Another flood in early 1996 provided sufficient excuse for a shoe plant employing 135 to close down and move abroad. That makes a small charcoal plant with 150 workers the largest single employer in Tucker County, where many of the miners reside. Beyond that, most of the jobs are seasonal and part-time in ski resorts or fast-food joints that serve...
...Zaire and now runs a volunteer housing program. After dinner, I asked him what the latest news was in the Congo, and he turned on his computer to check out the Websites of people who were monitoring the situation. We surprised the manager of a Tyson chicken plant near Sedalia, Mo., by phoning from the bus and asking for a tour. After a flurry of calls to headquarters, he invited us in and showed us the new technology that will cut down on repetitive tasks; the workers said they were supportive because there are more than enough jobs...
...found in the tiniest and most ordinary of details. If so, a blizzard of revelations may be raining down now that the Sojourner rover has rolled carefully down the Pathfinder ramp and begun poking around the Martian surface. On Monday, the rover, which looks more like a post-modern plant stand than a space vehicle, spent ten hours studying a nondescript rock dubbed "Barnacle Bill" by scientists, in order to determine its composition. A neighboring rock nicknamed "Yogi" is next. Once Sojourner receives the steering signals broadcast by NASA late Monday, the scrappy little craft will amble over...