Word: grapes
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...Dukakis among the 4 million Democrats who voted for Walter Mondale in 1984, most of whom live in big cities. The election may be decided among Democrats in the suburbs, and in the Central Valley, the richest agricultural region in the U.S. (estimated value of its vegetables, nuts, grapes and cotton: $15 billion a year). The valley is home to 1.3 million voters, many of them transplants from the Southern states, who register 3 to 2 Democratic but voted heavily for Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Says Bill Lacy, head of Bush's California campaign: "The people in the Central...
...true in a few cases. Government economists acknowledge that the dry spell has created an atmosphere in which consumers respond to the price increases with grudging acceptance. But some prices are still bound to produce a mild case of sticker shock. At one market in Baltimore, boxes of Post Grape-Nuts cereal have been marked up four times in the past six weeks. The 12-oz. package now costs $2.01, up 30 cents...
...furor has put chemical companies on the defensive as well. The Chavez hunger strike, accompanied by a boycott of California grapes and several supermarket chains, was partly inspired by an incident last year in which 75 farmworkers harvesting grapes sprayed with the insecticide Zolone came down with flulike symptoms. Under pressure from state agriculture officials, the chemical's manufacturer, Rhone-Poulenc, stopped selling the substance to grape growers. This year Rhone-Poulenc is carrying out a controversial test in which it paid 25 college students as much as $1,500 for one week to harvest a central California vineyard that...
...lets the computerized pages of the phone bill cascade to the floor: $3,967.78 worth of calls in two months. In the kitchenette, the remains of some ipapa, South African-style cornmeal bread cooked here in the wee, homesick hours after the show, lie among empty cans of grape soda...
...exotic charm (Koala Ridge, Wirra Wirra), but the principal varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, are familiar to U.S. buyers. Nonetheless, winemakers Down Under are carefree about tradition, and some of their practices are downright heretical by American or French standards: for example, blending Cabernet Sauvignon, a red grape from the Bordeaux area, with Shiraz, a Rhone Valley varietal known in France as the Syrah. Labels can be confusing as well; the Australians use a lot of mysterious bin numbers, which are intended to denote wines of special quality...