Then I bought four apples and sold them for twenty.

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Eclipse, which is meant to be sprayed on apples, cherries and other fruit four to ten times a season, is made with microcrystalline calcium carbonate--the nontoxic white powder that's on the outside of chewing gum.

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Out went the traditional iceberg lettuce topped with tomatoes and onions, and in came four new salad varieties featuring 11 different greens and new ingredients like apples, pecans and asiago cheese.

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It reminds me of the story of the two brothers who went out into the country and bought apples for a nickel and sold them in the city for four cents.

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The apocryphal brothers who bought a truck and bought apples in the country for five cents, which they sold in the city for four cents would not have been saved by a better credit line any more than they would have been saved by a bigger truck.

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