Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors may try to improve children with edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...
...lays down the rules and makes sure they are followed. Says Rubbermaid Chairman Stanley Gault: "Everyone has to know that shoddy work will not be tolerated. Our customers are not there to field-test our products." At Apple, says Chairman John Sculley, "quality is a religion. Anybody on the plant floor has the authority to shut down the entire line. And it happens...
...stake in twelve of Rockefeller Center's buildings in the year 2000. If the holders execute that option, Mitsubishi Estate's ownership in the storied center will slip into minority status -- and any fears that the towering Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center will be replaced by a tiny bonsai plant in Mitsubishi Center will prove to have been misplaced...
...Soviet government's first reaction to the 1986 catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear plant was to hide it from the world. Only when confronted with irrefutable evidence did officials admit that one of the plant's reactors had exploded, releasing a radioactive cloud that spread over the country and across Europe...
...race that had focused on the placement of a sewer treatment plant in New Bedford went down to the wire, with Mayor John Bullard and David Williford exchanging the lead as the night grew late...