Word: bonsai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trumped-up death sentence over his head at home, Ninoy settled down after his operation in a red brick house in the affluent Boston suburb of Newton. There he returned to scheming for the overthrow of Marcos, while Cory resumed her favored routine of browsing through department stores, raising bonsai trees and relaxing over Falcon Crest and Dallas. Her American neighbors remember the President of the Philippines especially for her Peking duck...
Inside Building 80, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's shabby concrete-and- tin inspection station on the outskirts of New York's John F. Kennedy + International Airport, a crate of bonsai trees en route from the Republic of China to Memphis has been pried open. In a nearby room rests a long cardboard box containing cut flowers from the Netherlands. Thousands of similar parcels pass through J.F.K. daily. On some holidays -- Mother's Day, for example -- one chartered plane may discharge 15,000 cartons of blooms and foliage. But the shipments sometimes hold more than flowers. They...
Kupersmith Florist has set up an elaborate window display of bonsai plants and white lights which has "attracted a lot of attention," according to manager Al Brown. Emack & Bolio's has stocked up on holiday ice cream flavors including egg nog, rum, candy cane and the old traditional yuletide desert product cranberry ice cream...
Though the Reagan Administration has since 1981 coaxed the Japanese into five packages of trade liberalizations covering hundreds of products from golf balls to nuclear reactors, American sales in Japan are still as stunted as bonsai plants: $21.8 billion in 1981, only $1.8 billion more last year. In contrast, Japanese sales in the U.S. have streaked upward: $39.9 billion in 1981, a healthy $20.5 billion more...
...jonquils and daffodils and, of course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods, the fields of hyacinths and azaleas, the quarter-million tulips planted near the Tidal Basin. Special pilgrimages are urged on visitors: not just the National Arboretum-precious camellias! amazing bonsai!-but the wonders of Dumbarton Oaks and the little garden at the foot of Capitol Hill. Washington, in sum, is very serious, even about its plants...