Word: citrus
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...NAFTA's fate next month will probably turn on 20 votes among Congressmen from Florida and Louisiana, who insist that sugar and citrus producers in their districts should continue to be protected from free-market competition, and that U.S. consumers should be protected from buying less-expensive Mexican imports. The treaty provides for a 15-year adjustment period on sugar imports, but it also allows the Mexicans to export sugar freely after seven years if that nation has a surplus. Sugar-state lawmakers are worried that the Mexicans will substitute corn syrup and other sweeteners for domestic use and divert...
...company's decision about where to locate. Critics of NAFTA have overlooked such factors as America's higher worker productivity, superior transportation and more reliable legal system. While in the short run NAFTA may cost the U.S. jobs in low-skilled, low-wage industries like garment manufacturing and citrus production, the agreement will foster a great number of higher paying U.S. jobs in such areas as telecommunications, chemicals and heavy machinery...
...Florida citrus growers cancel $500,000 spokesman contract...
...regulates calcium intake and pro- liver, butter, whole milk motes bone mineralization Vitamin E maintains cell membranes and pro- nuts, seeds, whole grains motes healthy skin Vitamin K needed by liver for formation of cereals, dairy products, meats blook-clotting factors Vitamin C helps body fight against colds, may citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry energy metabolism Vitamin B6 needed by enzymes for amino acid poultry, fish, grain products metabolism Vitamin B12 important...
...babies are born in the U.S. each year with most of the brain missing or the spinal column incompletely closed. Reflecting recent studies, many doctors advise that women planning pregnancy consume 0.4 mg of folic acid daily -- about double their average intake -- by eating more leafy green vegetables, citrus fruits, beans and fortified cereals or by taking vitamin pills. But many pregnancies are unplanned, and women do not realize that they are expecting until it is too late for supplements to do much good. Before approving the recommendation, the FDA must weigh whether the B-fortified food would have harmful...