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...Jungle Gear. For a special friend who truly enjoys the company of elephants, snakes and water buffalo, Banana Republic (Charles Square) offers a pith helmet for $24. In case you're going into Africa, you can spend $42 on pleated front, lightweight cotton chinos at Banana Republic. For those who yearn to take to the skies, an authentic World War II flight jacket, $259, will take you up, up and away...
...Atta boy," Rutger smiled. "And who needs 'em anyway? I just got a press kit in the mail--seems this year is the 10th anniversary of the Topless Banana out on Route...
...Party under Prime Minister Bob Hawke had already begun to suffer an alarming drop in popularity, most notably because of a crisis in foreign exchange. Emergency measures had to be enacted to shore up the plummetting Australian dollar. Treasurer Paul Keating voiced his fear that Australia was heading for "banana republic" status. And so, in light of looming economic disaster, the government introduced the so-called "horror budget" which called for massive federal cutbacks...
...laughed at me." Indeed, Caplan has the last laugh: she now ships 150 to 200 items all over the country at any given time. Besides such novelty vegetables as sugar-snap peas, pearl onions and spaghetti squash, she stocks Asian pears from Japan, loquats from Chile and Mexican Burro bananas. Inspired by her success with the kiwi, Caplan has gone back to New Zealand for tamarillos (tart, egg-shaped tree tomatoes), pepinos (purple-striped golden melons with a silken texture and a flavor reminiscent of pears and honey) and kiwanos, which she describes as the "weirdest looking fruit." They...
...allow private business to become the prime mover of growth." Scheduled for sale are more than $6 billion worth of assets in idled companies, many of them abandoned to bankruptcy by Marcos or his cronies. Also to be sold are tens of millions of dollars in sugar, coconut and banana plantations that Marcos or his friends controlled...