The land was simply part of a field that their family had cultivated for generations.
Other projects had an intriguing launch product but were not cultivated for the long-term (see the ROKR music phone).
Cultivated for more than eight centuries, the rice terraces cover 16 acres and range in altitude from 300m to 1, 100m.
As a result, the product was never commercialized, and plants cultivated for food and fiber throughout the nation remain vulnerable to frost damage.
The huge industrial estates just north of Bangkok sit on land that was once heavily cultivated for rice, precisely because the land floods regularly.
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This is a condition that has been cultivated for decades.
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The vines were not cultivated for wine until Juan took over in 1990, but, as a little boy, he remembers picking the grapes and eating them as he walked.
The plants grow wild along highways and in other spots in the U.S. They are also considered ornamental by some gardeners and are cultivated for medicinal castor oil and other products.
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The brilliance of Steve Jobs at Apple (AAPL) has been embodied in a carefully cultivated image for Apple products.
Congress finally acknowledged defeat in 1862 with the passage of the Homestead Act, which gave settlers free federal land if they cultivated it for five years.
But in this case, it's actually pretty apt: The group combines the messier impulses of punk, psychedelia, '60s rock and '90s Britpop, complete with a carefully cultivated reputation for unruliness which includes (but has not been limited to) urinating on each other, vomiting onstage and setting their instruments on fire.
Kettman, a California native who grew up as a fan of the San Francisco Giants, was a sports reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and cultivated a fondness for Fenway Park and the Red Sox while covering the Oakland A's for four years in the 1990s.
Among analysts, Zhejiang has cultivated a reputation for transparency and candor rare among Chinese companies.
While still a student he cultivated a taste for finery and the high life.
Hu has cultivated her sense for the precise moment when a sensitive subject is safe to publicize.
The 59-year-old businessman has cultivated a reputation for bold and unconventional plans.
The first is that Young, an influential political columnist on the Sunday Times and then the Guardian who died in 2003, had incredibly good contacts and cultivated them relentlessly for upwards of 30 years.
And before I knew it, you know, when I'm graduating high school, I've been doing something that I loved since you know, I was seven years old and it basically cultivated a dream for me.
American vintners have cultivated pinot noir for a century, but only in the last decade have they discovered the best micro-climates for growing it: Oregon's Willamette Valley and a half-dozen California locations, including Carneros in southern Napa and Sonoma counties, and coastal regions near Santa Barbara.
Sugarcane is grown on about 90% of the cultivated land area and accounts for 15% of export earnings.
Obuchi for years has cultivated the image of an empathetic politician who lacks the refinement of the University of Tokyo set that has long dominated the bureaucracy and Parliament.
Native Americans apparently cultivated the plant and smoked it in pipes for medicinal and ceremonial purposes.
Having been around for nearly two centuries and having cultivated its brand identity with exacting care, Brooks Brothers has considerable brand strength.
Grown in water, as its name implies, the zesty, sweetly pungent green is the most widely cultivated of the cresses, the common name for more than a dozen small-leafed members of the mustard family.
He cultivated a large and enthusiastic fan base in Japan for his talent and good looks.
The cook had been to the ranch as often as Pereda, who had always said that the country was no place for a man like him, a cultivated family man, who wanted to make sure that his children got a good education.
But the professor dismisses this, saying most of the arable land is cultivated already, while the rest supports indigenous woodland that is used for grazing cattle, or for wildlife, or both.
So he made a dramatic career switch, breaking free of Microsoft's golden handcuffs in 2003 and three years later starting a company called Fair Trade Sports, which makes balls for soccer, basketball, football and rugby using rubber cultivated in pesticide-free plantations in India and Sri Lanka.
Performed with individual variations throughout the region, Oku-noto no Aenokoto reflects the everyday culture of the Japanese, who have cultivated rice since ancient times, and serves as a marker of identity for the area s farmers.
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