Word: planting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most profitable major operator, Firestone. After Northwest's takeover attempt, Keener, who was paid $240,000 last year, allotted each of the divisions a profit target and rigorously trimmed back on money-losing operations. Last week, six days before Christmas, Goodrich closed down a rubber footwear plant in Watertown, Mass-and with it went the jobs of 950 employees. In that case, the closing had been announced in July. "Let's be frank," says John N. Hart, Goodrich vice president and controller. "If we can't improve our performance, we don't deserve to survive, either...
Government officials are now looking into the power company's argument that insects-not pollutants-are to blame. Whatever they decide, Virginia Electric and Power does not seem unduly concerned: it is proceeding with the construction of a third Mount Storm plant, scheduled for completion...
Businessmen are still borrowing expansively and betting on continued inflation. They figure that demand will remain high, and so they had better build plants and buy equipment now instead of waiting until prices go up still further. Despite dwindling profits, scarce credit and excess capacity, the Government's latest survey shows that businessmen plan an 11% increase to $71 billion in their investment for plant and equipment next year. Capital spending has been an important force behind inflation in recent months, and such an increase would add greatly to price pressures...
Counterattacking, Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, a master of vivid invective, last week likened Solzhenitsyn to a noxious plant pest. At a meeting of 4,500 Soviet farmers at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the author of And Quiet Flows the Don drew a parallel between literature and collective farming in Russia. "We also have bumper and lean years," he said, "but you farmers have done away with pests, while we, unfortunately, still have Colorado beetles-those who eat Soviet bread but who want to serve Western bourgeois masters and send their works there through secret channels. Soviet...
...attracting chemical bases. Although only four different kinds of such bases are found in DNA, they can be arranged along the helix in an enormous variety of sequences. Each of these sequences contains genetic information that determines, for example, whether a child will have blue eyes or whether a plant will produce wrinkled seeds. But where along the length of the DNA molecule does one gene end and another begin? How can a single gene be isolated so that its characteristics and processes can be studied...