Word: cropped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...companies face the prospect of a 20-year-old being able, across international boundaries, to halt the entire business of a multibillion-dollar corporation. Private industry isn't about to wait for law enforcement agencies - and the problems of international cooperation - to catch up to this wily young crop of mischief-seekers. In fact, firms may be more willing to cooperate with their fellow e-businesses than with big government agencies, particularly those from other countries, for fear of compromising web secrets. So if you're looking for a hot stock in the Internet world, you might want to consider...
...need Daddy come graduation. Erudite, accomplished and exceptional, these girl geniuses and boy wonders out-read Will Hunting, out-calculate Rainman and out-fly E.T. They're the best and the brightest of the best and the brightest. The crme de la crme of the cream of the crop. The smartest students at Harvard. Or something like that...
...State Department officials had given--and would continue to give--repeated assurances to leaders of Caribbean governments that the U.S. supported European preferences for their bananas. And not without good reason. Everyone was fearful that islanders unable to grow and sell bananas would turn to a much bigger cash crop--drugs...
...players were and many of the people I recognized, I remembered in different uniforms. The Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos were nowhere to be found. The consequence of rules intended to reward teams for poor records with early draft picks and easy schedules had resulted in a new crop of elite teams...
...that she really began to achieve her childhood ambition. That's when she started taking classes in viticulture, cleared land she had bought on Mount Veeder in California's Napa Valley and applied for permits to start a vineyard. Now 60, Chu has just sold her second crop to Hess winery. Next year she expects to turn a profit. The little girl who wanted to be a farmer has finally grown up, and it's only fitting that the grapes that made her dream come true are late-ripening Cabernet, which, she points out, improve with time. The difficult mountainside...