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Indeed, the European Union is the fruit of a long, continuous effort to strengthen common norms and rules among European states.
No one can deny that this consumer- and market-centric vision of the economy has produced plenty of fruit.
(Such low-hanging fruit has been increasingly scarce for the Republican Party, which is beleaguered by the perception that it has been hijacked by its most extreme elements.)
This move has already borne fruit, with record numbers of rescues late last month.
Between 2006 and 2011, for example, we doubled the agriculture budget, distributed more than 2,000 cows to low-income families, and expanded milk delivery and fruit and vegetable gardens across the country.
Studies of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have significantly advanced our understanding of the mechanisms underlying Mendelian genetics.
Using the state of Rajasthan as an example again, creating the infrastructure to store and transport milk, fruit, and vegetables safely would cost half as much as loan waivers.
Reforms and international support are beginning to bear fruit for Ukraine’s economy.
Indignation at the highhanded behavior of a corrupt police officer helped to drive a Tunisian fruit seller to set himself on fire in 2010, touching off revolutions across the Arab world.
Such an effort can bear fruit, as Unilever’s own actions demonstrate.
In Vietnam, a cooperative program has improved the quality of produce for urban consumers, and boosted tea, fruit, and vegetable revenues by nearly one third.
Whether this thaw yields more meaningful fruit hinges on the North maintaining its freeze on nuclear and missile tests.
For example, forced solidarity will oblige any hard-working farmer in Benin who has accumulated some wealth over the years to share the fruit of his labor with his enlarged family, including distant relatives.
The Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy has yielded little fruit and left the United States isolated and increasingly discredited on the world stage.
Upgrading the service sector is low-hanging fruit for Asia, because tremendous investments are not required.
Of course, it is difficult to know which exploratory path will bear fruit, and there is no shortage of novel scientific ideas that were proven wrong.
If even one non-mainstream idea bears fruit, it could transform our view of reality and justify all of those heterodox hypotheses that do not.
The Last ExtinctionBONN – Farmers across Africa are currently engaged in an unequal struggle against a pestilent fruit fly whose natural home is in Asia.
All of us, not just Africa’s fruit farmers, ultimately depend on nature’s bounty for our prosperity – indeed, for our very survival.
If the fruit of economic growth reaches the poor through employment creation, growth in capital-intensive sectors has a limited effect on poverty reduction.
The surviving fruit of those efforts – the New Start arms-control treaty and cooperation on Iran and Afghanistan – are vestiges of the warmer ties that existed when Dimitri Medvedev was president of Russia.
It will be a few years yet before we can determine whether these ambitions have borne fruit.
The Declaration of Human Rights was the fruit of the special climate of the post-WWII era, when humanity realized it needed to prevent repetitions of the recent apocalyptic horrors and agree on a fundamental, global code of conduct.
Even in animals whose genes are more easily studied and much better understood, such as Drosophila , the tiny fruit fly, there is no simple one-to-one correspondence between gene and behavioral trait.
For example, when training a fruit fly to prefer one odor to another in a simple learning task, it will remember better if trained at repeated intervals over a long time rather than in one intense session.
Even more recently, scientists at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego have shown that according to all essential definitional criteria, fruit flies sleep at night.
But those of us who study how genes affect behavior are humbled by the fruit fly's complexity.
Moreover, fruit flies exhibit this complexity under conditions in which "nurture" is kept constant--a condition that is never true of humans.
If the relationship between fruit fly genes and behavior is so complex, can it be any less so with humans?
Whether describing genes for the color of flowers in pea plants or the shape of the fruit fly's wings, geneticists at the beginning of the last century believed that each gene governed one unique characteristic.
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