The early fruit was the Bretton Woods monetary system, which established the rules governing commercial relations between the big industrial nations.

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Given year-round water, Sicilians could grow early fruit and vegetables.

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Instead, most farmers simply harvest their fruit early, when it is not yet fully ripe.

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Mr. Marsh, who died Tuesday at age 80, launched Snapple in New York with two friends in the early 1970s to supply natural fruit juices to health-food stores.

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By early June, this effort seemed to bear fruit, as Serbia accepted the conditions delivered by Russian and Finnish envoys.

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Pulque curado, which is mixed with any number of flavours but usually fruit, became popular in the early 19th Century, perhaps as a way to make the beverage palatable to more people.

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From an early age, Louise loved to help Terry out in their fruit and vegetable shops in Blackwood and Porthcawl and was used to mixing with the customers.

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Although looking ahead to next month, ONS said it was too early to say if the recent floods will cause the price of fruit and vegetables to rise.

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Witness the coexistence of rough planes that incorporate sand and suavely brushed passages, or of raucous invocations of leaves and fruit, and illusionistic wood grain and marble (an echo of his early training as a master decorator, as well as of Cubist collage).

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If the prices of vegetables, fruit and other crops are more flexible than other prices, food inflation may be an early warning of an overheating economy.

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