Word: chiquitas
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...rejects the notion of “absolute truth” by implication, passers-by are thus free to imagine and enforce their own particular meaning of the sculpture. Tamiko A. Tsurudome ‘04, for example, speculates that “It kind of looks like the Chiquita Banana Woman”, whilst Jeremy D. Olson ‘03 queries whether “it has to do with inflated grades at Harvard...
...European Union and the United States announced an accord Wednesday to end their years-long dispute over whether E.U. trade policy illegally favored bananas imported from former European colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific over cheaper bananas from Latin America sold by U.S. firms Chiquita and Dole. The E.U. promised to reduce those quotas from 850,000 to 750,000, and the U.S., in exchange, will lift price-doubling retaliatory tariffs on European imports ranging from French handbags to British linens and Danish ham, tariffs the Clinton administration felt justified in imposing after it won a WTO decision...
...Colonial guilt might seem like a poor reason for the E.U. to prefer Caribbean bananas to the by-all-accounts superior Latin America bananas grown under Chiquita's and Dole's aegis. But Europe's policy was aimed at a "trade not aid" goal of keeping small family farms afloat. The U.S. stance, meanwhile, seems to have been designed almost solely by hundreds of thousands of soft-money contributions to the Democrats made by Chiquita owner Carl Lindner...
...only did McCain have a longstanding relationship with Keating, he had a big affinity for Bananas. No, he wasn't really a Chiquita guy, he liked other bananas, a man by the name of Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonano who headed the New York crime family bearing his name. McCain liked Joe Bananas so much that he sent him birthday cards, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Sergeant Integrity associating with known mafia types? Something's wrong with that picture...
Throughout this period, Lindner and Chiquita enjoyed a close working relationship with the USTR office. Copies of U.S. government correspondence with heads of state in other countries were voluntarily turned over to Lindner. Finally, on Nov. 10, 1998, the USTR proposed 100% tariffs on several dozen European imports. The agency said the increased tariffs would be imposed on March 3, 1999, if Europe did not relent and relax its restrictions on Latin American bananas...