Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Fort Halifax Packing Co. shut down a poultry plant in Winslow, Me., in 1981, it refused to comply with a state law that required it to give most of its 125 employees severance of one week's pay for each year worked. The firm argued that only the Federal Government could regulate employee benefits...
...burrowers have helped mix the nutrient-poor ash and pumice with rich, pre-eruptive soil, creating a more hospitable turf for windblown seeds. Deer mice, ants and beetles have also assisted in the regeneration of the soil. Flowering lupine, with root nodules that convert nitrogen into compounds necessary for plant growth, has seized a foothold on the pumice plain, along with the ubiquitous fireweed and timothy grass...
Academic Dean Albert Carnesale, who has advised Dukakis on nuclear power and the Seabrook, N.H. power plant, says that Dukakis "never did campaign from the Kennedy School." Instead, "just like any teacher, he learned a lot from teaching," he says. Dukakis won the support of Bay State voters in the next gubernatorial election...
...graduate school of public policy--whichZeckhauser characterized as "growing liketopsy"--already rents space at 57 Church St. andat the 46 Dunster St. building of The SignetSociety. The Kennedy School also plans toconstruct another building on its Charles Riverbank location, capping off the third majoraddition to the school's physical plant in threeyears...
...Manwaring's work is more deliberately jarring. His graphics are often intriguingly precarious collages, pages teeming with violently disparate visual elements. Ziggurat shapes and plant leaves appear obsessively ("I can't drop them"), and his posters are frequently fenced off with thick bars at the perimeter, frames within frames. His sensibility is Californian but more edgy than mellow. Surfaces are often made to look scratched and torn, and his palette has grown darker and richer over the past few years. "If I don't get a little resistance from clients," Manwaring says, "I don't like...