Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pasta tariff is intended as a way to retaliate for Europe's treatment of U.S. citrus exports. The Administration claims that the European Community discriminates against American lemons and oranges by offering more favorable tariffs on fruit from Mediterranean countries, including Algeria and Israel...
...have always preferred Coca-Cola to Pepsi, finding the latter much too sweet and thin. Most of all, I dislike the citrus-oil flavor I seem to detect in Pepsi. And though the new Coke approaches the sweetness and thinness of Pepsi, it does not have the lemony aftertaste. Therefore, I still prefer Coke. I suspect that those who have preferred Pepsi will continue...
...decades until his retirement from the board last year, and whose leadership built a debt-ridden, one-product soda-fountain business into a giant multinational, making Coke a favorite in all but a few countries and merely one of the company's 250 products, which included flavor essences, citrus drinks and coffee; in Atlanta. Woodruff was also a prodigious philanthropist who gave away an estimated $350 million, much of it anonymously, to medicine, the arts and education...
...capital. The first part of the program was an $18 million, five-year project by the Agency for International Development to help the Peruvians build roads, bridges and water systems. The scheme was also designed to reduce coca production and encourage instead the cultivation of coffee, bananas, rice, citrus and other crops. Yet the seemingly apolitical program became the target of repeated assaults led by the Maoist guerrillas known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) or a related leftist group called Puka LLacta (Red Fatherland). Last July the terrorists drove into the project's central village of Aucayacu, ordered residents...
...effects of last week's cold snap quickly abated in much of the U.S., but Florida's citrus growers may never be the same. The freeze was the worst in history for the state's orange and grapefruit industry. Temperatures that dropped to the low teens destroyed as much as 40% of this year's crop. Coming on top of a $1 billion freeze in late 1983 and the citrus-canker epidemic in 1984, the icy blast destroyed the last hopes of some farmers in north-central Florida that they could survive in the business. Crops are smaller...