Word: plantes
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...Plant has now reopened under its new management. "The only question from musicians was whether there would be marshals here, standing around in trench coats," says Claire Pister, the studio's manager. But the G-men, who generally visit only to pick up the mail, boast that the studio is doing better business than before they took over the place. COSMETICS Dr. Barnard's Youth Potion...
...some areas, the House panel's plan is the same as that put forth by the Administration. Both, for example, want to repeal the investment tax credit, which currently enables companies to take immediate deductions of as much as 10% of spending on plant and equipment. Both proposals would also curtail the accelerated cost recovery system, which now enables businesses to depreciate their assets rapidly...
Many business leaders charged last week that the committee's changes could hurt the economy by discouraging investment. Some of the loudest complaints came from manufacturing industries, which spend more than most businesses on new plant and equipment. Alexander Trowbridge, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, contended that the bill could "result in reductions of manufacturing capacity and employment" and pose "extremely high risks for the economy...
...deeper question is whether Deng can bring himself, and lower officials, to free the market enough for it to work properly. Werner Gerich, 66, a West German manager who was hired to run a state-owned diesel-engine plant in Wuhan, found his factory, like many others in China, heavily overstaffed. "If I fired 700 people [out of a total of 2,140], we could make the same number of engines with better quality because we would have money," he says. But he quit in despair because party officials would not let him make that and other changes he considered...
When Deng and 88 other Chinese arrived in Marseilles in late 1920, they found jobs scarce and funds even scarcer. Nor was there any opportunity for formal schooling. Deng worked for a time at a Renault factory and at a rubber-footware plant in Montargis, south of Paris. Though he wore Western-style clothes and acquired a lifelong fondness for croissants and bridge, he associated almost exclusively with other Chinese, among them Chou...