• At least Americans still eat nearly seven times as much fruit at home instead of at a restaurant.

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  • They call it trading for a reason, and if your traditional timeframe has not been bearing much fruit as of late, experiment with altering your holding period.

    FORBES: Cash Is An Investment Too

  • The report says that if people ate as much fruit and vegetables as the government wanted, this would merely lead to a rise in the import bill.

    BBC: Farming

  • All of which makes for a happy mix of old and new, helping Dubai sustain the links with its mercantile past while feeding a global appetite for the region's much-loved traditional fruit.

    CNN: Dubai ports feed global appetite for dates

  • The merged airline "still has much low-hanging fruit to pick as it integrates its networks, " Linenberg says, noting that cutbacks in capacity should reduce pressure to cut fares, especially in the company's core East Coast markets.

    FORBES: US Airways Seen With 'Low-Hanging Fruit' To Pick

  • They were expected to come out with at least one stunning conclusion right off the bat, and they did: Human beings had about 32, 000 genes, give or take several thousand--not that much more than a fruit fly or a worm.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Several years ago, noticing uneaten fruit piling up in our office as holiday gifts from vendors, I wondered how much we spent for cards, fruit, nuts and candy for customers.

    FORBES: Customer Appreciation And Charities

  • They were too often disappointing, with too much oak, too little fruit and little care.

    WSJ: WSJ Tastings: Gaiter and Brecher Say Expensive American Chardonnay Disappoints

  • Much of this is the fruit of changes that occurred a while ago.

    ECONOMIST: Restructuring corporate Germany

  • On XanGo's 30-acre campus in Utah, XanGo executives, tan from a recent distributors' rally in Cancun, won't disclose how much mangosteen goes into each bottle, or how much they pay for the fruit, which sells for a few cents each in places like Thailand and Puerto Rico.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In a sense, developing new drugs will be increasingly difficult, because so much of the low-hanging fruit has been picked.

    FORBES: Pfizer's Tough Transition

  • But a more difficult fact may be facing the industry: Much of the low-hanging fruit in areas such as heart disease may have already been plucked.

    FORBES: Matthew Herper On The Drug Industry

  • While coconut water typically has less sugar than sports drinks, it also has much less sugar than regular sodas or fruit juices.

    FORBES: The Truth Behind The Coconut Water Craze

  • For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.

    ECONOMIST: Growth and geography

  • Much of the rich world now expects to have fresh fruit and vegetables available throughout the year.

    ECONOMIST: A bug with social aspirations

  • Added to that, spraying tall trees is a much more complicated and unhealthy business than treating low-growing fruit and vegetables.

    ECONOMIST: Biological pest control

  • Too much and the vines develop vigorous leaves at the expense of their fruit.

    ECONOMIST: Winemaking and radar

  • These travellers usually worked in the fields picking fruit and were rewarded with free accommodation and food, much like the permanent residents.

    BBC: Kick back on a kibbutz

  • No matter that Japanese housewives paid up to eight times the American price for rice, five times the American price for beef, fruit and processed food, and three to four times as much for travel, clothing and telephone calls.

    ECONOMIST: Sunset for the men in suits | The

  • However, attic space will become much less expensive in the 21st century, we will soon introduce a new fruit-recovery utility and version 3.0 will open the mailbox in under two minutes.

    ECONOMIST: News report

  • Fortunately four to five meals per day of char kwey tiaw (fried noodles in soy sauce with egg and various additions), asam laksa (Penang's famous, indescribably good curry noodle soup), rojak (fruit and veggie salad in a sweet dark shrimp paste) and much, much more, goes down a lot easier than heavier Western foods.

    BBC: Finding a favourite hawker stall in Penang

  • Comparative wine production statistics for China are a bit problematic because much of the wine produced is not pure grape wine but may be mixed-fruit wine, and the rules on what can be labeled Chinese wine are quite, er, flexible.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Drinks are a good place to be in right now: Fruit juice and dairy products are rising 18% a year in consumption, much faster than the 15% for the beverage industry overall, according to figures from the Soft Drink Industry Association (Asrim).

    FORBES: Indonesia's Kalbe Farma Expands From Health Care To Juice Drinks and Beyond

  • While there isn't much to buy, the market is a sensual feast of fresh-cut flowers, exotic fruit and interesting characters.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Travel Watch | Detour

  • "I also need to know that the fruit is so forward that the wine is expressive, that the wine has so much to say that at 35, 000 feet I can still smell it, " he adds.

    CNN: Grape expectations: Making wine taste good at 35,000 feet

  • This ancient fruit (it was mentioned in Buddhist texts more than 2, 500 years ago) is much more than the stuff of desserts and trade wars.

    CNN: TWO IS ENOUGH - REALLY

  • One of the items for sale, and that seemed to elicit as much excitement on Mr. Payard's part as his dessert inspiration candles (Oatmeal Lavender, Passion Fruit and Coconut Lime) or decadent Baba au Rhum in a jar, was an incongruous piece of cutlery in a presentation box.

    WSJ: A Simmering Bake-Off

  • After introducing lemonade and fruit-flavored ice tea in distinctive wide-mouth bottles, the company went public in a much-ballyhooed initial public offering in 1992.

    WSJ: Snapple Guy's Overnight Success Took Decades

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