Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eventually every bag was empty, and I thought I'd throw up if I had to chew one more grape-flavored LOVER BOY. Now came the challenge. To help myself make sense of all this romantic wisdom, I tried to categorize the sayings. Then, I thought, I would understand not only the candy, but love itself...
...essays in The Architecture of Western Gardens are arranged chronologically by five periods, but they do not form a comprehensive or even uniform history of garden design. Rather, they use a grape-shot technique to cover both general topics and specific examples. Recurring concerns in the essays include the uses of architecture in gardens in the form of fragments and folies and, especially, the visual representation of gardens...
...Cesar Chavez was starting the grape strike, [and] I had a friend who was working with Cesar," he says. "I saw it as an extension of the civil rights movement in California...
...asking Americans to not forget the suffering of farm workers and their children, the important human beings who feed this nation daily. Thousands of Americans have responded positively to Chavez's appeal for support, and today the boycott is quickly gaining monentum and making a large impact on grape sales. But there is still much more to be done...
Because they are denied their legal right to organize and bargain collectively with growers, farm workers, especially grape workers, earn meager wages while working under miserable conditions. Many grape growers use the piece rate method to underpay their workers. As a result, grape growers often earn as little as $2 an hour...