Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though the island and its economy will have escaped relatively unscathed, the bad news is that traumatic earthquakes may become something of a trend in Taiwan ? the island sits atop the fault line where the Philippine tectonic plate is grinding into the Eurasian plate. But in what is almost certainly an unintentional reflection of its geopolitical position, Taiwan applies three sets of building codes: its own, mainland China's and California...
...power walking across the churchyard with the cameramen jousting and stumbling behind. After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says...
...many people question whether it's a good idea for fallible human beings to go mucking about with the genes of other species. It's one thing if a scientific experiment goes wrong in a lab, they say, but something else entirely if it winds up on your dinner plate. To date, there's nothing to suggest that re-engineered plants have ever done anyone any harm. Nonetheless, the European Union has blocked the importation of some GM crops, and since 1997 has required that foods that contain engineered DNA be labeled as such. Plenty of trade watchers in Washington...
RIDE WITH REAGAN Will 5,000 motorists stick one on for the Gipper? The California State Assembly has approved a Ronald Reagan license plate. (The Reagan library suggests the design below.) If the Governor signs the bill and drivers order it, the plate will be available...
...jump cut to a second screen-filling face, this one wearing, barely perceptible right up there at the top of your picture, something shiny on its head. Aha! you think, that could be a batting helmet, and ergo this new face could belong to the player at the plate who, since he's inclining his head over his invisible right shoulder, may be a left-handed hitter...