Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other bills are piling up fast for the oil companies. Last week Unocal posted a loss of $134.7 million for the fourth quarter of 1985. The company was hurt last year by the cost of fighting off Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens and by its money-losing oil-shale plant in Colorado. While several big oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Mobil, showed earnings gains in the past quarter, most petroleum experts see a lean future. Says Constantine Fliakos, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch: "The last good news in the oil patch was the fourth-quarter results...
...cheaper for a little country with a lot of cash to steal some uranium than to build a plant to make it," O'Connor said...
TUCSIN -- The University Center for Studiesin Namibia, Namibia: Internship--the internwould prepare a research and development proposalon the cultivation and domestication of amulti-purpose plant endemic to the Namib Desert.Candidate should be a graduate student with abackground in the biological sciences...
...benefit concert for 350 workers who are losing their jobs at the 3M plant in Freehold, N.J., promised ten bands for $5. But everyone got more than they bargained for when Bruce Springsteen and members of his E Street Band made a surprise appearance at the Stone Pony, the Asbury Park club where the Boss played in early days. "Remember what we're doing this for," Springsteen told the stunned audience of 500, before breaking into My Hometown, a song about a textile-plant closing in Freehold. Said Springsteen, who was born there and lives in nearby Rumson: "The marriage...
...political sense as well; it was not the time to be upbeat. But why wasn't it? People die every day in this country--at work, at home, in the streets. Reagan didn't go on TV to mourn the loss of a worker killed last month at a plant that processes uranium for nuclear weapons. He died for his country, unexpectedly, without media fanfare, with no final streak into the heavens. Or what about the street people who are dying in the cold snap that is sweeping the nation...