Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...
...Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...
...Harvard. Only a handful of other educational institutions made the top 50. Rank Non-profit organization FY96 Private Income 1 Salvation Army 644,267,026 2 American Red Cross 465,632,246 3 Catholic Charities USA 419,389,526 4 American Cancer Society 381,674,000 5 Second Harvest 369,123,575 6 United Jewish Appeal 346,649,213 7 Harvard University 323,406,242 8 Boys and Girls Clubs of America 294,892,216 9 YWCA of the USA 283,755,099 10 American Heart Association 256,512,000 12 Stanford University 240,832,287 19 Yale University...
...partying on the beach with a huge, all-the-fixin's clambake--complete with damp rocks, a recalcitrant fire and lobsters that trudge purposefully out from under the tarp--Sheila Lukins' U.S.A. Cookbook (Workman; $19.95) is the way to go. Better to read about her fresh peas than harvest your own bullets, and to serve her herbed bass than your limp concoction that drives the guests out after the lobsters...
...grandfather owned a thresher, the only one in the village at that time. When Communist officials took my grandfather's land and thresher away as part of "collectivization," they forced him into service for the collectivity. In exchange for his work he received a far smaller portion of the harvest than he did when his thresher was his own. The propaganda of volunteering for the community did not work for him and for many others mainly because the members of the community received too little to lead a decent life...