Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biloxi, Miss. The predawn fog creeps across the Hilton hotel parking lot where a dozen perky volunteers gather to prepare for the Vice President's visit that afternoon. Scott Walker, 22, who has taken a semester off from the University of Central Florida, leads a group that will plant another 100 BUSH FOR PRESIDENT signs along Highway 90. The others head for the the Mississippi Coast Coliseum to inflate 1,000 red, white and blue helium balloons. They work in the men's bathroom, where the ceiling is low enough to allow the balloons to float within reach. Logistics...
...Weyerhaeuser, a leading lumber and paper producer: "The strong dollar of 1985 is having a haunting effect when it comes to investing large chunks of capital." It takes about three years to build a large factory, and companies have no idea what economic conditions will be like when the plant is finished...
Fear of a recession, almost endemic in corporate boardrooms, is also restraining new plant construction. Says Edward Irving, senior vice president of United Technologies, an automotive supplier: "Back in 1980 and 1981, we had to shut down 25 plants because of excess capacity in the auto industry. We said to ourselves, 'We're not going to face this again.' " That attitude is to be expected, says Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics: "A reluctance to invest in new capacity is a natural reaction to years of meager profits...
Wall Streeters applauded the Fiero's dumping as a decisive move by GM, which has endured sagging profits in the past two years. But the news caused no cheer in Pontiac (pop. 76,715), Mich., where GM will idle the Fiero plant and lay off 1,100 workers...
While Sheldrake acknowledges that systems are flexible, he never once mentions that a set of genes, organisms or cultures can behave differently in different environments; the term "norm of reaction" (the typical biological term) does not appear in the text. And this from an expert on plant development, where classic examples of this sort occur. His decision to attribute most quotes in endnotes seems suspicious. A honest approach would have presented anomalies and evidence first (a few psychological experiments, introduced later seem to support him), rather than trying to seduce readers into believing that the theories of science and society...