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It is still unknown whether chimpanzees deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels, which tend to be riper and richer in sugar that can ferment.

Persistent inflation suggests that conditions are becoming ripe for the central bank to make a move, but some economists say Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s preference for expansive economic policies complicates the path to monetary tightening.

The melons had already been freed from the vine by the cutters, farmworkers well-versed in when the fruit is ripe.

Whether folding clothes at a mall retailer or working the register at a supermarket, customer-service jobs have also been ripe fodder for movies about mindless work.

In a statement, Nexstar said it still believed that “the landscape is ripe for regulatory reform and that we are on the path to completing our transaction.”