Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandfather didn't think so. He sent her to Baldwin-Wallace College, an obscure place of higher learning that lacked two things that Bowling Green could point to with pride: hockey and fruit files...
...course the second scenario is less favorable than the first for the U.S.S.R. But it is also less favorable for the U.S. and for the entire world. This provides reason to hope that the U.S. will not deploy SDI and will limit itself to research, which may even bear fruit in peaceful areas...
...daily norm for meat in prison is officially 40 grams ((1.4 oz.))," Begun said. "But if there is a shortage of meat in Moscow, you can imagine what it is like in Chistopol prison. I never saw any meat." He guffawed when asked if he ever got fruit or cheese. "I never saw an apple. I never saw an egg. I never saw cheese. They gave milk only to very sick prisoners, one glass a day." Begun occasionally got milk, following hunger strikes that he had started to support demands for better treatment. "I went on a hunger strike near...
...survive the trip and arrive in the United States ready to reap the benefits of the American Dream. It's summertime and you find a job in California's San Joaquin Valley, which is rich in agriculture. You're working 10-12 hours a day, picking grapes and tree fruit in temperatures that rise above 100 degrees for weeks at a time. You're making minimum wage and workers' benefits like medical insurance and sick-leave are unheard...
...hundred dollars a month to live in a one bedroom-one bathroom house with twenty other immigrants under sub-human conditions. In the fields, you're picking fruit that has been sprayed with hazardous chemicals, several of which have been outlawed by both state and federal agencies. With nothing to protect you from the pesticides, you become contaminated. And, since your employer is careful to "protect" you from "troublemakers" like Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, you have nowhere to turn for help...