Word: replantation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaching into places and lives that defy fertility. Throughout the most savage reaches of New York's inner city, community gardeners are transforming burned-out lots into verdant sanctuaries. Across the dry plains of the Midwest, botanists are finding plenty of volunteers to help them reclaim the prairies and replant the wildflowers that belong there. In a formidable climate where there are hailstorms in June and frost in August, juvenile offenders at a Wyoming detention center have some of the finest gardens around...
...Civil Rights Division is pursuing 28 other slavery investigations, two of which will soon come to trial. In Tyler, Texas, three people are charged with forcing a group of twelve Mexican migrants at gunpoint to replant timberland; that case is scheduled for trial on Oct. 3. In Los Angeles, ten members of an Indonesian family have been charged with arranging the illegal entry into the U.S. of 32 other Indonesians, who were allegedly put to work as domestic servants in California for little...
...more. Many states have tightened up their bidding procedures, frequently subjecting sets of bids to computer analysis in a search for suspicious patterns. No one expects the new vigilance completely to reform the construction industry, but the Transportation Department's Welsch thinks the antirigging campaign is beginning to replant the seeds of competition. Says he: "We've seen more contractors coming into the marketplace, because it's a free market again...
Furthermore, it began to appear likely that Harvard has no plans yet to replant the ivy when the Houses are all spruced up again-that, in fact, the ivy was partially responsible for the structural decay that prompted the massive renovation. The plant's tendrils, it seems, secrete a substance that slowly eats away at a wall's mortar and cement...