Word: supermarket
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...hope its slide stops before it moves into competition with the likes of "Tic-Tac-Dough" and "Supermarket Sweep...
Without the chemicals and pruning, the fruit would not resemble the grapes you see in the supermarket...
...their theory to the test, researchers took over the wine shelves in a local supermarket. They displayed four French and four German wines "matched for their price and dryness or sweetness," indicating the origin of each vintage with a French or German flag. For two weeks, from a tape deck on an upper shelf, they played their own homemade Muzak, alternating days of French accordion and German beer-hall music...
...claims, consumers are also at risk. According to a 1992 study by the General Accounting Office, cited by the UFW, grapes are sprayed with 75 different kinds of pesticides--one-third of which are known to be carcinogenic--and between 20 and 50 percent of the grapes on supermarket shelves retained pesticide residues...
...evolution. There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messily over the bulges and crevasses of the brain...