Word: plantes
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...linked wirelessly (like the Kindle) via a high-speed cellular network to a store that will support on-demand transactions of under a dollar. There are just two problems. Because everything about Plastic Logic's device is new, right down to a fab plant built in Dresden that's churning out parts, the first model won't reach consumers until 2010. And version 1.0 will render text in standard E-Ink black on gray. CEO Richard Archuleta says a color screen that can handle true black and white (not to mention the gamut of colors needed to reproduce the page...
...could argue that some jobs - painting, writing, being a rock star - are better performed under the influence. But other jobs should clearly be given only to the perpetually sober: we don't want our railroad operators or nuclear-plant employees to be smoking up on the job. So it seems appropriate that U.S. employees in those high-risk positions are routinely subjected to random drug-testing...
Such optimism can be found elsewhere. The Kaluga region, to which Lyudinovo belongs, continues to draw in foreign investors, including automakers. Volkswagen has invested about $350 million in an assembly plant and is producing about 320 cars per day. Peugeot is not far behind. Dietmar Korzekwa, VW's group representative for Russia, says the automaker is continuing with its current growth plans. In part, VW is betting that if the Kremlin raises import taxes on autos, as it has suggested it might, it will become more advantageous to manufacture in Russia...
...think I came here to be a potted plant." -Replying to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remark, made in January 2007, that Gregg was "the designated 'see-if-we-can-mess-up-the-legislation' guy this year." Almanac of American Politics...
...economic meltdown. Nowhere has that been more evident than in Britain - long the European Union's most enthusiastic cheerleader of American-style deregulation and free trade. On Monday, U.K. unions held a repeat of last week's wildcat strikes protesting a decision by a French-owned oil plant to bring in 300 Italian and Portuguese contract laborers. British workers at the refinery in northeast England say they want jobs to go to locals, not to cheaper foreign workers. The move sparked rare oil-worker walkouts across the U.K. Workers want Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make good...