Word: grower
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...Wong sat transfixed before a computer monitor, watching stock prices and anxiously awaiting her big payoff. Shares of vegetable grower China Green Holdings began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, and Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter, was one of the lucky few who had obtained shares of the hot China stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price of 16?. That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening...
...Though genetically modified foods are consumed by millions of Americans without apparent ill effects, many Europeans are wary of them. Some imports are allowed into the Union, but a handful of member states placed a moratorium on approvals for new imports in 1998. The U.S., the world's biggest grower of GM crops, wants to be able to export its GM food. Green groups and some European officials charge America with deliberately sending GM maize to Southern Africa to force a showdown, while American officials believe the E.U. exploited Zambian concerns to bolster its own anti-GM views...
What could be better for the environment than a cheap, simple way for farmers to double or triple their output while using fewer pesticides on less land? According to Rockefeller University environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel, if the world's average farmer achieved the yield of the average American maize grower, the planet could feed 10 billion people on just half the crop land in use today. Of course it's possible that some genetically modified foods may carry health risks to humans (although none have so far been proved in foods that have been brought to market...
...have all moved in or expanded there. Napa's Robert Mondavi Winery (2001 sales: $506 million) has boosted its holdings across Santa Barbara, Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. "Every major winery in the state is betting on the central coast," says Robert La Vine, Mondavi's director of grower relations. "It's been a real rocket ride...
...federal agents on the lookout for homegrown marijuana. In 1992, a cop using the device had spotted a lot of excess heat coming off high-intensity grow lights. Police searched the house, found more than 100 plants and arrested one of its occupants--a small-time marijuana grower named Danny Kyllo. Kyllo appealed the case all the way to the highest court, arguing that by using infrared technology to pry into his home, the government had conducted an unconstitutional search...