Word: plants
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...Memories plant, which may cost as much as $1 billion to build, will not be ready for at least a year and a half. "They're going to have to hurry up if they don't want to fall too far behind," says Sam Navarro, who follows the industry for the investment firm Ladenburg, Thalmann. Despite the time squeeze, some experts believe U.S. Memories could capture 30% to 40% of the U.S. chip market...
Coming even as the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation of practices at the Rocky Flats, Colo., nuclear-weapons plant, the report sketched a variety of lapses. Many were not disclosed, said Democratic Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, committee and subcommittee chairman, because of "obsessive secrecy." Among them...
...Hanford, Wash., plutonium finishing plant, managers turned off radiation alarms because high winds sometimes set them...
...charge by Calvert and a friend, city employee Michael Thomas, 32, that a special secret police unit had been digging into Calvert's private life. After Thomas claimed that a police inspector questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January, filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which announced it would investigate the alleged misuse of police...
Given their meager influence on Israeli public opinion, which is moving furiously rightward, these interlocutors are strengthened by such criticism. At one meeting in Bardin's Jerusalem home, Jad Isaac, a Palestinian biology professor imprisoned after urging West Bank Arabs to plant vegetable gardens to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency, put it simply: "Even if all we do is talk, it is good...