Word: chiquitas
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...night stand. There's that guy dressed up as a dildo in the corner, although he himself doesn't look like he could do that much, if you know what we mean. Then there's that woman trying to balance a bowl of fruit on her head while singing "Chiquita Banana" to a crowd of onlookers. Oh, oops, that's not a Harvard student. It's Carmen Miranda come back from the dead...
...free-market side of the banana split you've got the Germans, who want all they can eat (in this case, 19 lbs. per person per year) at low prices; the trio of giant producers, Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte, which together account for 60% of the world output and want open borders and a fair fight, and may the best banana win; and the various banana republics where Dole, Chiquita and Del Monte operate...
...easily bruised." Both GATT panels have ruled that the banana quota system is a restraint of trade, but that hasn't stopped the friends of the quotas. They have been working frantically behind the scenes, offering South American countries various financial inducements to get them to switch positions. Meanwhile, Chiquita filed a formal protest against the European quotas in conjunction with the U.S. banana producers in Hawaii, even though the banana output in Hawaii doesn't amount to a hill of peels. The French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana...
...doesn't have enough trouble on its hands, the Clinton Administration has to decide soon whether to join with Chiquita in opposing the banana quotas in defense of open trade and a Europe free for bananas. But this begs a tough question: If we're for free bananas, what about free peanuts? Currently we've got a quota on those to protect small peanut farmers and ex-Presidents...
...club's revenues come from gifts, membershipdues and revenue from a series of low-riskinvestments. According to documents obtained byThe Crimson, the club holds stock in ninecompanies, including Coca-Cola and Time Warner,Inc., and bonds in six other corporations,including Revlon and Chiquita Brands...