Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such pests are invading the U.S. in increasing numbers, with sometimes dire effects on agriculture, forests, public health and even people's homes. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which threatened California citrus crops in 1980-82, is thought to have arrived in a tourist's peach. Africanized "killer" bees, sighted for the first time on U.S. soil last year near Bakersfield, Calif., probably hitchhiked there from Latin America aboard a ship laden with oil- drilling equipment. Asian tiger mosquitoes, carriers of dengue, a viral infection that causes chills, headache and muscle pains, were intercepted near Houston last year. They have since...
...Community pulled back from the brink of a major food war last week. After two months of intensive negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement in Brussels to lift mutual restrictions on some $1 billion worth of goods. Among other things, the E.C. concessions would lower tariffs on U.S. citrus products, almonds and other nuts, while the U.S. would shrink duties or raise limits on E.C. exports of anchovies, olive oil, paprika and cheeses...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
...upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...
Whereas the original California Cooler was still the sales leader last year, big companies are crashing the party. California's Gallo, the largest winery in the world, is expected to take over the No. 1 position this year with its heavily advertised Bartles & Jaymes citrus cooler. Customers have been lured by its homespun TV ads, in which laconic Non-Actors Dave Rufkahr, an Oregon farmer, and Richard Maugg, a California contractor, portray the fictional characters of Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes...