Word: plants
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...same time he accused the Americans of "stealing" Cuban water through the pipeline from the mountains which had served the base since the turn of the century. In response, the Navy severed the pipeline, engineered a 'waterlift' of freshwater tankers for a year, and meanwhile built a desalination plant which still supplies the base with power and freshwater. Guantanamo naval station is completely independent from the Cuban mainland. Food and all supplies are shipped in from the East Coast...
...textbook-development director Francie Alexander charged that "there's just less and less information about evolution" in publishers' recent offerings. The Charles E. Merrill Principles of Science, for example, meekly allows that Charles Darwin developed "a theory that explains why there is a great number and variety of plant and animal species...
...Wang Zhaoguo, 44, director of the Communist Party's general office. His story is almost a Chinese version of a Horatio Alger tale. In 1980 Wang, who was then a deputy factory director, was assigned to take Deng on an inspection tour of Hubei province's No. 2 automobile plant. The bespectacled technician made such a good impression on Deng that he was promptly transferred to Peking. Two years later, Wang was elevated to the Central Committee...
Compared with the misfortunes of Union Carbide, Job had it easy. The company's problems began nearly a decade ago with a profit slump that has persisted ever since. Then this past December came the leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a plant in Bhopal, India, which killed 2,500 people and provoked more than $100 billion in lawsuits. Last month Union Carbide fell deeper into trouble when a toxic leak in Institute, W. Va., sent 135 people to the hospital and prompted an additional $88 million in suits. Now Union Carbide faces a potential assault by corporate raiders...
...company's public image were not blackened enough, Union Carbide suffered another toxic leak last week. A cloud of hydrochloric acid escaped from its South Charleston, W. Va., plant, briefly threatening 60,000 people attending an outdoor festival. But this time the company acted swiftly and efficiently. An emergency squad sprayed the chemical with water to dilute it, and no one was seriously injured. Union Carbide can only hope that last week's painful cutbacks will be just as effective...