Word: grapes
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...pickets, boycotts and media campaigns are not intended to convince corporations that exploiting their workers is immoral. To expect this would be hopelessly naive. Workers go on strike to cripple their employer severely enough that paying workers more is the less costly alternative. Farm workers organized the historic California grape boycott to make it impossible for farm owners to continue making money while treating them despicably. The history of labor victories worldwide is the history of workers coercing their bosses into treating them fairly...
...AIMING FOR THE HEART With a specially designed needle, doctors aimed for the apex of the heart, which was the size of a grape. Once inside, they worked their way to the defective valve...
...first literary adaptation, a "genre" that has become his specialty. His two Swedish Pippi Longstocking films and his best-known English-language features - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat - all began as books. He can't explain why so much of his work has been book-based but says he likes material "that isn't linear, that goes with characters...
...Then the romance starts. Viticulture in the Hunter Valley began in the early 1820s but only in the 1960s did the wine industry of the lower valley begin to flourish. By the '80s it had superseded coal mining as the centerpiece of the local economy. These days about 160 grape growers and 43 wineries dot the valley, many offering daily tastings. And that's just the beginning of the gourmet allures: the region features some of the country's finest restaurants and many top-end inns and resorts. With Sydney only a two-hour drive away, the Hunter Valley...
CHEAP $10 PRINCETON TEC PULSAR FLASHLIGHT What? You think key chains are just for holding the keys to your SUV? Princeton Tec's tiny terror of a flashlight is the size of a large grape, but it puts out 12 hr. of brilliant white light on just two watch batteries. You won't even remember it's there--until you lose a contact in your tent in the middle of the night. www.princetontec.com...