Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invasion from overseas shows no signs of slowing down. Last week Honda, the leading Japanese carmaker in the U.S., announced a major $450 million investment in a new Ohio facility to build engines and car components for use in the company's Marysville, Ohio, assembly plant...
...Many plant lovers are also plant killers: they never quite find the right mix of light and water to keep their houseplants alive. Weyerhaeuser, the Tacoma, Wash.-based forest-products company, believes this problem may now be solved. Last week the firm began selling plants, trees and flowers that have been put into a kind of permanent "sleep." Weyerhaeuser owns the North American rights to the treatment, in which nontoxic preservatives are injected into the plants. The process, which also permits the use of dyes to transform green plants into red ones, has been available on a limited basis...
Weyerhaeuser believes there is a huge market for its products, but owners of plant nurseries caution that sales of living trees and flowers are not about to die off. Says Steve McGonigal, executive director of the Washington State Nurserymen's Association: "There will never be a substitute for a real plant...
Drug abuse in the Soviet Union stems mainly from the use of koknar, or opium made from poppy seeds, and anashi, a substance similar to marijuana, made from the cannabis plant. Both crops grow wild in the country's Central Asian region. Poppies are also cultivated legally, mainly for use in medicines. The Soviet approach to treating abusers of such drugs tends to be punitive. Under a new law, youthful offenders may be incarcerated for up to two years in a police-run "preventive educational treatment center." The job of these institutions, according to a recent article in the Soviet...
...this traditional view is changing, however. It was recently learned that dangerous quantities of iodine gases had leaked from the Hanford reactors during the 1940s and that 500,000 gal. of nuclear toxins have leaked into the ground from storage tanks over the years. Those revelations, coupled with the plant's more recent problems, are giving pause to even the most diehard Hanford supporters...