Word: plants
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...peripheral people and prominent objects: a birthday cake, a motorcycle, a puppy. Even so, some objects slip through the indexing net. Last fall photographs were sought for a Living story about a particular Swedish ivy on the White House Oval Office mantel. There was no index listing for the plant, and hundreds of White House pictures had to be examined. Eventually, 62 turned up, of which 20 were used. Now, of course, the plant is properly cross-indexed...
...written by Union Carbide inspectors and released by Congressman Henry Waxman. It warned that a "runaway reaction" at a tank containing methyl isocyanate could lead to a "catastrophic failure" of the tank. A Union Carbide spokesman said the company took corrective action, but did not inform the Indian plant because it used a different cooling system...
...output produced by each employee. This higher productivity then permits the noninflationary increases in wages and salaries that enable employees to afford a higher standard of living. Budget deficits undermine such increases because they require the Government to borrow funds that would otherwise be available to finance investments in plant and equipment and in housing. The projected annual deficits of 5% of G.N.P. mean that Government borrowing would absorb more than half of these funds...
What next? After the shocks of the past six months, including the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and a leak in a chemical plant in Bhopal that killed more than 2,500 people, Indians were stunned last week by yet another national crisis. This time the bombshell was the exposure of an espionage network that had penetrated to the highest reaches of the government. Before clamping a tight lid on details of the investigation, India's youthful new leader, Rajiv Gandhi, whose Congress (I) Party won a sweeping majority in national elections only a month ago, gravely informed Parliament...
...Agence France-Presse in Paris and claimed that the killing had been carried out by Action Directe, a shadowy French terrorist group that has been linked to West Germany's Red Army Faction. Only hours before Audran's killing, three 230-ft. electric-power pylons at a nuclear-power plant near Hamburg were damaged by explosives. Also last week a suspected Red Army Faction member, Johannes Thimme, 28, became the first casualty of the new terror campaign: he was killed when a bomb he was carrying in a baby carriage detonated prematurely in Stuttgart...