Word: burley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...research resources of the arboretum are about the best in the world for work on any type of botany work, says Mercer Fellow John S. Burley, a botanist working at the arboretum...
...Burley's particular project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, involves the collection of Southeast Asian plants that might help in alleviating or curing cancer and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The work, which is being done jointly with the University of Illinois at Chicago's pharmaceutical program, also entails the interviewing of doctors and other natives who know which plants are used as medicinals...
...Burley has collected plants from the Philippines and Sumatra so far. He is also working on the National Geographic Society project and the Southeast Asia flora project...
Projects such as Burley's depend upon the Arboretum's plant and written libraries for much of their basic research. Without the wide-ranging collection of Southeast Asian plants the arboretum holds, Burley says his work would be very difficult...
...Georgetown (pop. 11,000), a center of Burley tobacco farming and Thoroughbred horse breeding, Toyota has found a site close to auto-parts suppliers, a crucial consideration for Japanese firms striving to keep a low level of inventories. In addition, the town's central U.S. location will allow Toyota to keep down delivery costs. Finally, the area offers inexpensive and plentiful electricity and easy access to two interstate highways...