Word: plantes
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...import cars made overseas without going through a Chinese partner. Ford plans to increase production sevenfold, to 150,000 cars a year. Volkswagen, maker of the best-selling cars in China, plans to invest $6.5 billion with its joint-venture partner to double annual capacity at its Shanghai plant to a million cars...
...Main Street wasn?t good - it was - but you?ve either got to keep the kids going, or let them crash. Something in-between, like dinner, was best done at the house, where they could melt down as they chose. As I watched Mary Grace nearly do a face-plant in her Tony?s pizza, I thought: ?Live and learn.? We headed for the Ferry Boats that would take us to the parking lot with no fewer than five containers of left-overs: tomorrow night?s dinner...
...public is going to accept the food, just as in the plant field we have [genetically altered] plants that are resistant to infection,” he said. “It may be a problem in Europe, but to the average American, taste, price and health are the things on his mind...
...INDICATORS Supply and Demand Halliburton has been ordered to reimburse the Pentagon $27.4 million after allegedly overcharging for meals it supplied to the U.S. military. And American justice officials demanded documents relating to allegations that a Halliburton-led consortium paid $180 million in illegal commissions to build a plant in Nigeria in the '90s - the subject of an ongoing probe in France...
...power. "The level of dialogue with BP or Shell is totally different," says Bruno Rebell, Greenpeace's head of international programs. At Henderson Global Investors, which manages about $127 billion in assets, fund managers also think Total needs to do more. A September 2001 accident at a Total fertilizer plant in Toulouse that killed 30 people raised questions about the company's safety record, says Henderson's Nick Robins, and its continuing presence in Myanmar puts it off limits for some of Henderson's socially responsible funds. "We're looking for consistent year-on-year improvements," Robins says. "We recognize...