1.   At first he had trouble competing with importers who were smuggling liquor in the apple crates, but a crackdown in Singapore put an end to that.

2.   Before they gathered in a New Hampshire television studio to discuss education and taxes, Republican presidential candidates argued about apple crates.

3.   Blades of fading grass, ripened fruit, an abandoned plow, a pile of apple crates--you can show them close up or from a distance.

4.   But if Bauer was going to stand on an apple crate, the other candidates wanted crates, too.

5.   Growing up during the Depression in East Los Angeles, Esptein scoured alleys collecting apple crates.

6.   On the front page of this section is an ottoman by the architect Frank Gehry, inspired by wooden apple crates and woven with strips of maple.