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...second time in three weeks that the FDA had dared challenge the big food companies. The first target was Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice, another P&G product. After more than a year of wrangling over the word "fresh" (the product is made from concentrate and is pasteurized), the FDA had U.S. marshals impound 24,000 half-gallon cartons of the juice at a suburban Minneapolis warehouse. P&G gave in within two days. Unilever subsidiary Ragu Foods, which since 1989 had been skirmishing over the same word on labels for its processed pasta sauce, soon dropped its fight...
...decreed as an emergency measure to rescue a vital export industry by curtailing wool production. During the past 18 months, Australia's prime overseas customers have cut back on purchases, leaving a glut of fleeces. Moreover, wheat farmers expect to see their incomes halved this year, and home-grown citrus sales have also soured. At a time when much of Australia is taking to beaches and playgrounds, the dreaming high summer of the Lucky Country's interior has turned into a nightmare...
...citrus, the bruiser has been import liberalization. In 1988 Canberra relaxed tariffs on a variety of products, enabling Brazilian oranges to capture 20% of the domestic market. Australia's 167,000 farmers protested that such imports were heavily subsidized by foreign governments. But Canberra remains committed to free trade in an effort to make the country more competitive. Whether market-oriented policies will rescue the countryside is the big gamble: a question, as the doomed sheep might attest, of killing some agriculture in order to save...
...recalled, "I felt the passion for color develop in me." This was dramatically confirmed by Morocco, where Matisse's aesthetic of decoration took full hold. Flat pattern, inlaid motifs, sharp conjunctions of highly decorative forms -- as in the wonderful Basket of Oranges, 1912, with the sharp forms of citrus fruit and their leaves competing against the more diffuse pattern of the flowered silk drape on which they rest -- these were the signs of a world crammed with pictorial events, all common yet all august and tending to equivalent value...
During California's war against the citrus-destroying Mediterranean fruit fly, community groups have beseeched state officials to stop spraying the insecticide Malathion in populated areas. But the bureaucrats at the California department of food and agriculture refused, insisting that the . spraying poses no threat to human beings. Now at last the state's anti-medfly force has been induced to yield a bit -- to avoid possible harm to an endangered species named the Stephens' kangaroo...