Word: plante
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They make some kind of food at the Munck plant in New Ulm, Minn., but the camera is too distracted by its intent to build a case against Lucy (Zellweger) to ever show us precisely what. Instead, director Jonas Elmer keeps our eyes fixed at the level of supercilious Lucy's excruciatingly high heels as she minces around the factory, to hammer home the fact that she's a fish out of water. Jars of something brown go by occasionally, but it's the people who make the brown stuff who matter. And they are all Real Americans, the salt...
...largest employer. Caterpillar hasn't disclosed how many of its displaced workers live in this region, but about one-quarter of its global workforce is based in Illinois, mostly around Peoria. As light snow fell late Tuesday afternoon, dozens of Caterpillar workers marched out of a company plant on the far edges of the city. Their faces were grim. No one was in the mood to talk. The last time Caterpillar faced a similar crunch was in the early 1980s, when the company had to deal with the combination of recession and loss of market share to a fierce Japanese...
...things official: the bulk of that astonishing figure is already off the Peoria company's books, including some 2,500 management-level personnel who accepted buyouts in recent weeks and 8,000 people who worked on contract or through agencies as custodians, engineers and information technologists. Temporary layoffs and plant closures are expected in the coming weeks, and more cuts are likely by the year...
...cream plant, which had been owned by Alwadeya's family for 55 years, was far from the only factory destroyed in Israel's 22-day assault on the Palestinian enclave. All along Gaza's factory row - which produced everything from biscuits to cement to wooden furniture - hardly a single building remains standing. It's as if a tsunami of fire had roared through Gaza's industrial district, leaving in its wake a tide of twisted metal and smashed buildings. (See pictures of Gaza digging...
...addition, Gaza's housing stock took a hammering in the hostilities. Initial estimates of the Public Works Ministry point to more than 2,100 houses destroyed and another 45,000 left in need of major repairs. A key sewage plant, whose construction with international funding had the backing of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was also hit, causing nearly $200 million in damages. Maintenance experts say a crumbling wall around a sewage lake is now in danger of spilling tons of fetid waste into the streets and alleys of northern Gaza...