Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political advantages were obvious by the time the plant opened in September 1993, early in the Clinton Administration. Thanks to Knight, one of the guest speakers there was Grumbly, whose trip the lobbyist had arranged. Grumbly suggested that the firm could receive as much as $200 million in federal work, which sent the stock soaring. Gore, who wrote a best-selling book on the environment, joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity...
Over the past six months the MWRA dramatically increased the capacity of pipes that, during wet weather, carry raw sewage and storm water to its state-of-the-art $43.1 billion Deer Island sewage treatment plant...
...while officials at the EPA and CRWA acknowledge that the Deer Island plant will be helpful, they are skeptical about the MWPA's proposal to kill remaining bacteria flowing into the river with chlorine...
...house of love. It is certainly not as funny as Dunne and Gordon must have thought it could be. But the movie does find some grotesque comic traction when Maggie and Sam move from the passive to the active mode, their prime target being poor Anton. They plant evidence indicating that he's having an affair on the side. They ruin the restaurant he runs by bringing in a horde of cockroaches the night the New York Times food critic is dining there. They destroy his fallback career as a model by making him break out in blotches from...
Their reward will be lessons in rock climbing and hikes to high valleys, including spectacular Mahoosuc Notch. There, they just might get to taste the fruit of the cloudberry bush. One plant produces just one berry, which tastes sweeter than a boysenberry. They'll also find ice caves where they can retreat from the sun--unless there's a July snowfall that day (it's happened). Canoeing on the Rangeley Lakes affords stunning views and a chance to glimpse the moose, ospreys and bald eagles that inhabit the shores...