Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fingerprint" as was found in the bottle opened for Elsroth. And as with that deadly container, the tamper-resistant seals on the second bottle appeared untouched. Some of the capsules inside, however, had been opened and reclosed. This bottle, from a different lot, had been filled at a McNeil plant in Puerto Rico...
Johnson & Johnson's previous experience with disaster had taught it the value of a spreading corporate discipline known as crisis management. Many other companies have learned the hard way that catastrophe can come from nowhere at any time: the lethal gas leak at Union Carbide's Bhopal plant in India in 1984, the 1981 collapse of two skywalks in the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel. But more and more firms are not waiting until calamity strikes to think about what they would do. Instead, they are developing detailed plans to cope with such crises as industrial accidents, product recalls...
...interested in minor life-forms that need a microscope, or at least a magnifying glass, to reveal themselves. One thinks of the buds and pods that crop up in Paul Klee's watercolors, some of which are fanciful illuminations of Goethe's ideas about the Urpflanze, or "primal plant"; or of the extraordinary images of tiny natural structures taken in the 1920s by photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, in which a seedcase can rear up like a Gothic tower, suggesting all manner of analogies to architecture. But Winters' paintings evoke this quintessentially Romantic idea of the very small as metaphor...
...diagram of the crystalline structure of the pigment, the form of the mineral out of which the surface was made; paint describing itself. He knew about pigment minerals because he ground his own colors. From then on he gradually put together an archive of crystals and plant forms, and it colonized his paintings...
...interest rates. The benchmark prime rate that banks charge for commercial loans has remained steady at 9.5% since it plunged to that level last summer from 13% in mid-1984. Fostered by the Federal Reserve Board, the easier credit has spurred consumer spending and encouraged corporate investment in plant and equipment. "All the signs are strong. We're seeing the fruits of a very substantial decline in interest rates," said Board Member Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Carter...