Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more discreet abroad, unsure what the new limits are on their quest for profit. United Fruit's decline opens new options for Central American nationalists. Expropriation is no longer heresy, regulation is almost taken for granted, and even some control seems feasible...
...this case, the $1.25 million bribe that United Brands is alleged to have paid President Oswaldo Lopez Arellano is not an aberration, nor a return to the old days of banana republic politics, but a paradoxical confirmation of how far the role of United Fruit has evolved. In the spring of 1974, seven banana exporting countries got together and tried to assemble a banana producer's cartel in the style of OPEC. This might seem ludicrous, but the fact is that bananas are by far the world's most popular fruit, accounting for more than 40 per cent...
...United Fruit has renamed itself United Brands, symbolizing the neutralization of its image and its power. It is getting older, weaker, and somehow more real. The banana plantations are still there, as ghostly as ever now that the banana bunches grow inside plastic bags on the trees, but they no longer exude their malevolent smell of intimidation. The local managers are smoothies instead of rednecks, and the worders are a well-off aristocracy of labor rather than serfs. The company has even gotten out of landowning, and prefers marketing and shipping...
...scientific meeting in 1948. he trapped them into confessing their adherence to the old "Mendel-Morgan" genetic heresies and, with Stalin's approval, replaced them with his cronies. As Director of the Genetics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Lysenko banned all experiments in traditional genetics; even the fruit flies used in this work were destroyed by boiling...
...despite its merits, the team has not always reaped the fruit of its efforts. No matter how hard the harriers ran, it seemed the opposition was one step ahead. "We've got a really good team this year, but just the damned misfortune of running against some really great teams," coach McCurdy laments...