Both have lost their economic base: Guben its chemical-fibre plant, Gubin its garrison.

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Companies can use a short form--which simply identifies the plant and the chemical found there--only if they release less than 500 pounds of just one chemical and only if that chemical is not considered one of the most hazardous substances.

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Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.

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Genistein is an isoflavone, a plant-based chemical that mimics the effects of oestrogen in the body.

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In late 1988, relations between the United States and Germany were seriously strained when a long-running, secret conflict over U.S. allegations tying a German company, Imhausen, to the then-nearly complete Libyan chemical warfare plant at Rabta broke into public view.

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But now cancer researchers have improbably seized on the obscure plant chemical as the blueprint for a half-dozen promising tumor-fighters.

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But as part of his course work he toured a Magnolia Ice Cream plant with one of his chemical engineering classmates, his soon-to-be wife, and learned of a franchise opportunity.

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