Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look of permanence. The Israelis are building colonies-or, as their critics might say, an empire. On a three-day anniversary trip of his own, TIME Correspondent Martin Levin covered the 1,349 miles of border from the Mediterranean cliffs of Rosh Hanikra on the Lebanese side to the citrus-scented Gaza Strip. His report...
...will visit only to pick up his wages. He thus can remain attached to his sports club and concentrate on his specialty while at the same time leading an elitist life in the supposedly classless society. He can get any food he wants in any quantity, even the fresh citrus fruits not generally available to the rest of the population. His income, for doing no work, is above average even without Santa's bonuses...
...occasion. They were tasty examples of Israel's flourishing fruit and vegetable exports and a subtle bid to increase her country's trade with Rumania, which now runs at a yearly rate of nearly $40 million, mostly in Rumanian meat, lumber and chemicals exchanged for Israeli potash, citrus fruits and textiles...
...Eberle, President Nixon's special representative for trade, pressed Ambassador Nobuhiko Ushiba for an agreement to lower Japanese tariffs, taxes or quotas on cars, computers, fruit and other U.S. goods. Then the abrasive-mannered Eberle jetted to Brussels to demand that Common Market officials let in more American citrus, tobacco and grain. He got some moral support from 15 members of the House Ways and Means Committee, who made a rare overseas jaunt to complain in Brussels about Common Market discrimination against U.S. farm exports...
...processes. One product is clean water. The other is "sludge," a black goo that smells like tar and has the consistency of pea soup. The sanitary district's problem has been what to do with the sludge. In the past, Chicago sold tons of dried sludge to Florida citrus growers as fertilizer. But drying the waste caused massive amounts of air pollution and was expensive...