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...Union also uses 1056 oranges, 600 apples, 264 grapefruit halves and 120 gallons of milk every...
Critics complain that the EPA has no way to measure the combined impact of ingesting many different pesticides. "I may have Alar on my apples, lead arsenate on my grapefruit, captan on my vegetables," says Jay Feldman, national coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides. "Alone, each of them may constitute a negligible risk. But when you add them up, the total toxic burden is too high...
...overdescription. In one scene, Doctorow depicts a Bronx market, with "every one of the merchants competing with the same oranges and apples and tangerines and peaches and plums for the same prices," and where merchants shout out their prices. "They called Missus, look, I got the best, feel this grapefruit, fresh Georgia peaches just in. They talked they cajoled and the women shopping talked back...
...cheap migrant workers remains available. While the extent of fraud is debatable, its existence is not. "We had applicants flying in from New York," says Mariela Melero, Houston district INS spokeswoman. Some supposed farm workers, when interviewed by INS, described picking chili peppers with ladders or stooping to harvest grapefruit...
...HALF years ago, a frozen orange and grapefruit were thrown through a dorm window at Currier House where a Black student was sitting. The assailants, calling themselves the "negro hit squad" phoned in to claim responsibility...