1.   Friendly persuasion A more reliable test is whether a fruit comes away from the plant without much persuasion.

2.   Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the city health commissioner, said her department did not know from what region or country contaminated fruit might be coming.

3.   I think of these stickers as resembling steamer-trunk hotel labels, tokens of how far fruit has come.

4.   It generally originates in the intestines of cows, sheep and birds and can spread to people when fruit comes into contact with manure.

5.   Regan prefers to keep oak in the background of his wines, to allow the fruit to come through.

6.   The citrus fruits are coming in under the U.S.-China Agricultural Cooperation Agreement signed late last year.

7.   The first fruit comes a couple of years after planting, and a mature plant yields two to five bushels a year.

8.   The fruit comes in many varieties.

9.   The red pomegranate is the most familiar, but the fruit also comes in yellow, green and white.

10.   The report will not mention the countries or states from which the suspect fruit might have come.