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  • From furniture works to dress-making class to palm-nut oil pots, Dr. Kofi Sam is barking out variations on his evangelical theme: West Africa can provide the essentials for itself (food, clothing, shelter and healthcare) if only it first licks a second AIDS crisis -- the Acquired Import Dependency Syndrome.

    Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam's Model of African Self-Sufficiency 2010

  • From furniture works to dress-making class to palm-nut oil pots, Dr. Kofi Sam is barking out variations on his evangelical theme: West Africa can provide the essentials for itself (food, clothing, shelter and healthcare) if only it first licks a second AIDS crisis -- the Acquired Import Dependency Syndrome.

    Christopher Lydon: Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam's Model of African Self-Sufficiency 2010

  • Back in the 1980s, Mrs. Lopes helped lead a group of women palm-nut processors in a battle for survival against pistol-packing ranchers on the edge of the Amazon jungle.

    At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story 2009

  • The Hyphaene palms to the west of the pans are nesting sites for, among others, the greater kestrel (Falco rupicoloides) and the palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis).

    Zambezian halophytics 2008

  • They are, however, eaten by them, and when cooked with the oil and pulp of the palm-nut considered a highly palatable morsel.

    Essays 2007

  • They are like taluses and must have fish oil or palm-nut oil for their engines.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • They are like taluses and must have fish oil or palm-nut oil for their engines.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • I heard the bone collapse with a sound like a palm-nut crushed in the jaws of a feeding elephant.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • Under this heading should also be included stearines produced by submitting distilled fat to hydraulic pressure, the distillates from e from unsaponifiable matter, cocoa-nut oleine, a bye-product from the manufacture of edible cocoa-nut butter and consisting largely of free acids, and palm-nut oleine obtained in a similar manner from palm-nut oil.

    The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

  • This oil closely resembles cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils and is stated to saponify readily and yield a soap free from odour.

    The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

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