Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Putting companies together is nothing new for De Benedetti. He earned a degree in engineering from Turin's Polytechnic in 1958 and ten years later took over as manager of his father's flexible-metal-pipe plant, which had just 80 employees. During the next five years, the younger De Benedetti expanded the firm by buying up small, mostly unprofitable companies. By 1976 his company was Italy's largest producer of car components and had annual sales of more than $46 million...
Coke, though, will answer the Pepsi Challenge. Last week, for example, company officials sped some of the first cans of the new drink from a Queens bottling plant to Manhattan's Battery Park, where they loaded them aboard a tugboat and took them to Liberty Island. Then in a brief ceremony, Charles E.F. Millard, chairman of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of New York, presented a can to a worker on the Statue of Liberty renovation project. As the new Coke is introduced into various marketing areas, it will be accompanied by a barrage of commercials, including one that shows...
...holds, a rain of comets that lasts hundreds or thousands of centuries bombards the earth. The impact of some of the larger comets spews enough debris into the atmosphere to block the sun for months. As the skies darken, temperatures on the ground plummet and the majority of existing plant and animal species perish...
...former New Yorkers cast off for the last time, they called out, "This is a case of ships deserting the sinking rat." In the morning, about breakfast time, the new owner's crew dragged away a dinghy Ellie had filled with petunias and replaced it with an upscale plant: a screw pine...
...Bhopal litigation is expected to dwarf those disputes. Approximately 2,000 people were killed and 200,000 injured by the lethal cloud of methyl- isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant (which the company last week announced will never reopen). "The worst industrial disaster mankind has ever known," charged Robins Zelle's formal complaint. India is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of itself, the victims and "future generations of victims...