Word: citrus
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...interesting data on each side of this. What does seem to happen is that when there's a reduction in low-wage workers, companies tend to develop technologies to compensate. Tomato farmers genetically engineered tougher skins so tomatoes could be picked by machine, for example. And citrus growers are starting to do the same things...
...like? IFF's smell scientists have been studying the psychological and physiological responses evoked by fragrances since 1983, so they answered that question with research rather than poetry. They blended dozens of scent notes from flowers, herbs, plants and fruits and tried them on hundreds of test subjects. The citrus-heavy perfumes were consistently associated with joy, well-being and, well, happiness. Clinique Happy, which has earned a queen's ransom for Este Lauder, went on to become one of the top five perfume launches of the decade...
...Israeli. They discarded Europe's deathly pallor and became bronzed, idealistic pioneers. Degania, which had been founded in 1910 by 12 Jews escaping Russian persecution, was the ideal. Its members were beset by malaria, cattle thieves and bouts of self-doubt. Yet they greened the stony hills with citrus groves. At night in the communal dining hall they argued passionately over the grand themes of the late 20th century: the individual vs. the group, women's rights, capitalism vs. socialism, religion. (It wasn't until last year that the kibbutzniks of Degania, ardent Zionists, voted to build a synagogue...
...MILLION to compensate citrus producers whose crops were destroyed and endangered by hurricanes Katrina and Rita...
...career at Florida’s Vero Beach High, where he played quarterback and shortstop, Stoeckel was unaccustomed to such rejection. So the freshman they called “Stokes” did that next summer what any washed-up high school jock would do: he retreated into the citrus groves of central Florida to battle banana spiders and find himself...