Word: banana
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Next he needed to convince other kids. He wrote entertaining spots for Littlewood's closed-circuit TV program (his slogan: "We love the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse!"), but at first many students resisted--and threw banana peels and other unsuitable garbage into his recycling bins. "One kid even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...
...good time, records show the Shooting Club threw elaborate banquets. A menu from a banquet given for members of the club in 1887 showed that the expert shooters dined on patties of lobster, gloucester, croquettes of chicken auxpetits pois, spaghetti parmesan au gratin and banana fritters glace benedictine...
...cited several examples of increasing pressure on politicians to raise campaign money, from his own campaigns for senator to the soft money contributions of the telecommunications, electrical and food industry in the recent "banana war" with Europe...
ROMANO PRODI Tapped to be European Union's chief executive, a.k.a. top banana in the trade wars...
Vitamin E-enriched and aloe vera-enhanced, this sunblock in a spray bottle marks the largest technological advance in the industry since the invention of artificial banana scent...