But things can go wrong, as with the spread of prickly pear in Australia early last century or zebra mussels in the North American Great Lakes at the moment.
He nurses his next-day hangovers with a tall glass of Jumex pear juice in his art-journal-filled library.
The one-time longshoreman worked as a police officer and attorney before buying a pear orchard in 1974 and converting it into a vineyard.
After an afternoon of riding through prickly pear cacti in the strong Southwestern sun, your reward is a relaxing cowboy cookout during a lovely sunset.
ATR's big order from Kingfisher seems to have gone pear-shaped in recent weeks as the Indian airline's financial troubles have worsened.
With his elderly parents helping, he began at a weekend place in pear country an hour's drive from the prime valleys--well removed from their fancy wine auctions and trellised tasting areas.
But, you know, it just sort of speaks to this whole list of problems that have yet to be addressed in Dave Pear's case.
Now I should point out the fact that the Social Security has judged him disabled has raised the question as to whether or not the rejection of Pear's claim in 1995 was a fair one.
Among the highlights: one very big rock, a 51-carat, flawless pear-cut diamond mined in South Africa, that is brand-new to the market.
Dave Pear and Gene Upshaw were teammates in the late 1970s with the Oakland Raiders, you know, and Gene Upshaw is very upfront about saying, you know, he knew Dave Pear was injured there.
In addition, a pair of diamond ear pendants brings together a pear-shaped fancy yellow diamond of 52.78 carats and a pear-shaped white diamond of 50.31 carats surmounted by circular-cut fancy yellow and white diamonds Mounted in yellow and white gold, the pendants may be easily swapped or detached completely, giving the owner three options for how to wear them.
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The ahuacate, a pebbly-skinned, pear-shaped fruit, had been a staple food in Mexico, and Central and South America since 500 B.
He treasured the fig trees introduced by Lutyens their huge leaves so useful in his plantings and the few pear trees left from the original farm orchard.
From 12-year-old stocks, this brandy is forceful, filled-in, and elegant, with mingled notes of caramel and pear.
Not quite as huge but with an equally mysterious history is the so-called Golden Maharaja, a pear-shaped diamond of fancy dark orange-brown color, weighing in at 65.57 carats.
The meal is often finished with a traditional sweet - such as a sticky rice cake in the shape of a purple blossom, with paper-thin slices of pear shaped like leaves.
The question raised by the league and by the union, which has resisted supporting Pear and others on these kind of claims, the point with Pear is that he didn't meet the very tough criteria for disability payments back in the mid-1990s when he last filed for this.
Anyway, the point is that when investors and companies lend to a bank and when they invest in them, they look at what would happen to that bank if all went pear-shaped and said bank got into a serious financial mess.
In Sunday's Washington Post Magazine, staff writer Michael Leahy tells the story of Dave Pear.
Good Riesling, of which there are many in Germany, is replete with notes of crisp green apple, lime, nectarine, ripe pear and spice.
Other displays attempt to engage all the senses, even smell, as in a series of Texas landscapes that lets you sniff such specimens as pine needles, prickly pear flowers, skunk, and coyote urine.
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The top lot at the Oct. 19 sale is a rare, internally flawless pink diamond weighing 25 carats, set in an elegantly simple rose gold and platinum ring, flanked on either side by a petite pear-shaped diamond.
Whether it's unusual heirloom tomatoes, such as Aunt Ruby's German Green or Yellow Pear, or purple-leaved Black Pearl peppers, which were introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum in 2006, interesting-looking vegetable varieties are more widely available.
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