Word: palme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing recognition that they are more valuable when left standing than when cut. Charles Peters of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden recently published the results of a three-year study that calculated the market value of rubber and exotic produce like the Aguaje palm fruit that can be harvested from the Amazonian jungle. The study, which appeared in the British journal Nature, asserts that over time selling these products could yield more than twice the income of either cattle ranching or lumbering...
This day it is hard not to look at his hands. They are large, very large, as if they could palm a basketball. One knuckle is bleeding, the practice had been rough. You can imagine the hands as a nice resting place for a lofted football. Saturday, when he plays tight end, they are just that. Quarterback Tim Perry connects with Collins in the end zone for the Crimson's only touchdown...
This day it is hard not to look at his hands. They are large, very large, as if they could palm a basketball. One knuckle is bleeding, the practice had been rough. You can imagine the hands as a nice resting place for a lofted football. Saturday, when he plays tight end, they are just that. Quarterback Tim Perry connects with Collins in the end zone for the Crimson's only touchdown...
This day it is hard not to look at his hands. They are large, very large, as if they could palm a basketball. One knuckle is bleeding, the practice had been rough. You can imagine the hands as a nice resting place for a lofted football. Saturday, when he plays tight end, they are just that. Quarterback Tim Perry connects with Collins in the end zone for the Crimson's only touchdown...
...Tweeds President Jeff Aschkenes, 46, puts it. Many outfits are made of linen, this year's trendy fabric, and come in offbeat colors. Examples: pleated, prewashed linen trousers ($59) available in Moroccan brown, sage, cadet or flax; and cotton- Lycra pants ($29) in the colors of sky and palm. Tweeds' designers take about four trips to Europe each year to observe -- and sometimes borrow -- the latest Continental fashions and fabrics...