Word: fruitings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last month Somalia-supported guerrillas operating inside southern Ethiopia blew up the Addis-Djibouti rail line in three places, closing it indefinitely. That was a serious blow to the economy of Djibouti, which depends on Ethiopia not only for customs and transit revenues but also for its fruit and vegetables. On the eve of independence, local markets were virtually bereft of produce...
...other direction, the Haymarket stop near the North End is worth getting off for. At the market vendors offer fruit and vegetables from open wooden carts on the street, which is always covered with at least a day's layer of garbage. Good deals are available there, but watch out for the hucksters who will slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left...
...shall ye reap. Let the Arabs, like other men, reap the bitter fruit of seeds they alone have sown...
...grains are completed and, weather permitting, prospects for bumper yields of these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere between 4% and 6%, v. painful leaps of 14.5% in 1973 and again...
...seeing my planet blow up. You know, there go my parents, my record collection, everything. What do I see? A hand waving to tell me where to look." Adds Mark Hamill, 25, who plays Luke Skywalker: "Acting in this movie, I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad. And I didn't even know who the coconuts or cantaloupes were...