Word: fruitful
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Much of the strain in U.S.-Japanese relations may be the inevitable result of a change in the way the Japanese view themselves. Increasingly, they believe that their economic success is the fruit of hard work and that the U.S. bears responsibility for its problems. An American diplomat in Japan explains: "Japan appears to be attempting to define a role for itself commensurate with the strength it exercises in the world...
Instead of the road, Tadashi and I followed the short cut under the big pines into the valley orchards and vineyards. The rocky soil was fertile once it got water, so, although too far above the river here for paddyfields, it produced fruit, melons and chestnuts through a computer-controlled sprinkler system. Down the dusty road until we reached a farmhouse. Tadashi knew the son and his bride...
...Paulo. Factories that produce construction equipment and other capital goods are operating at only 20% of capacity, and 8.5% of the country's workers have been laid off. Of the entire working-age population, 40% is either unemployed or working part-time at marginal, unskilled jobs like selling fruit on the streets...
Only 121 million acres, or about 10% of Brazil's arable land, is used to grow crops. Over the next three years, the Brazilians hope to plant 2.5 million more acres with wheat, sugar cane, soybeans, rice, vegetables and fruit. Tens of thousands of poor farmers are moving into the fertile but undeveloped cerrados savannah region in the central plateau. In one area, the government is giving away 1,250 acres to each of 150 homesteaders...
...protest, or condemnation." Around the corner, a block away at the Communists' modern, red stucco headquarters, there were scenes of jubilation. As a youthful crowd of 2,000 gathered under umbrellas in a pelting rain, Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer declared, "We shook the tree. Others are gathering the fruit, but no matter; it is the beginning of the end of Christian Democratic predominance. For the first time there is a possibility of a majority of democratic parties without the Christian Democrats." True enough, but so far that possibility is only arithmetic because the Socialists and other small parties refuse...