Word: plants
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...contaminated groundwater were pumped into a 3,400-ft. well lined with two cement walls. EPA considers the golf course cleaned up, as indeed it seems to be. In one sense, however, the problem was merely transported across the river. All that soil has been deposited on the plant's property, where a bigger cleanup job has been completed...
Commenting on the Bhopal case, Belli said he expected to win a $1 billion award from Union Carbide Co. on behalf of 22,000 clients. Thousands of people were killed or injured in the Indian village when deadly gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant earlier this year...
Pinkham began selling her 'medicine' in 1873, winning satisfied customers with such crowd-pleasing ingredients as black cohosh, true and false unicorn, liferoot plant, dandelion, and the ever-popular pleurisy root--with a whopping dose of alcohol thrown in "purely as a solvent...
...Japanese-led consortium landed a $550 million contract to build a bridge across the Bosporus strait because Japan agreed to give Turkey a 25- year, $205 million loan at 5% interest. A French firm used government financing to close a deal to put up a $160 million fertilizer plant in Thailand...
...already one of the world's great word mills, publishing more than a billion pages in documents a year. But its football-field-size printing plant will be taxed by the nonstop flow of oratory. To fit in all the speechmaking anticipated in the final week of the anniversary commemoration, U.N. officials are searching for a diplomatic way to hold the pronouncements of visiting statesmen to 15 minutes apiece. Their solution: dignitaries will be warned that if their eloquence runs long, "night meetings will be required with all the ensuing consequences." Dire consequences indeed: cocktail parties delayed and curtain times...