Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early this year into a bounteous crop of some 80 million lbs. But last week Roy Malensky, a grower in Hillsboro, Ore., who supplies berries for such products as Breyers Ice Cream and Dannon Yogurt, stood in his giant strawberry patch and mourned row upon row of darkened, spoiled fruit. His expected loss: $100,000. To the north, meanwhile, Richard Cowin, a black- cherry grower in Wapato, Wash., watched downheartedly as his crop began to shrivel...
...spectacle of wasted crops spread jitters across the rest of the Farmbelt, especially in northern states that depend on migrants from the Southwest. In the Fruit Ridge region of Michigan, growers are scrambling to find cherry pickers, but the real worry is about the peach crop in July and apple harvest in August through October. Other worker shortages could reach from the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the poultry farms of Texas...
...tedious, low-paying farm work, since they can then apply for any job they want. Thus growers are already beginning to boost wages for pickers of apricots and cherries by as much as 30%, to $6 an hour in some areas. As a result, some varieties of fruit may cost the consumer 4% to 6% more this summer than last...
...they are usually on the golf course or by a pool during the day and watch television at night. One of his favorite programs is The Newlywed Game, which, he says, gives him an insight into the lives of working-class Americans. He has a fond spot for his fruit trees -- grapefruit, orange and papaya -- and talks to them the way he might like to talk to his actors. "Goddam you!" he says. "Deliver...
Meals range from morning coffee and danish breaks to sit-down dinners and the traditional Eliot House lunch of salmon and strawberries. Thirteen thousand meals are served on Commencement day itself, including the lunch of fan-cut, chicken marinated with a tarragon vinaigrette, fruit and tea sandwiches, Hennessey said...