Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanations for the dollar's dive were depressingly familiar: the continuing weakness of the nation's trade balance, lack of progress in Congress on an energy bill, persistent rumors that petroleum-exporting nations might be planning to stop pricing their oil in dollars and switch to a basket of stronger currencies. To that litany, businessmen, bankers and money traders added a couple of new elements: dismay at the lack of any sort of dollar-strengthening scheme to emerge from the economic summit in Bonn of the previous week, and a feeling that European leaders are making unexpected progress on setting...
Other credentials of a hard-nosed variety may then be displayed. MacArthur the successful businessman: founder of Graphics, a company devoted to making sophisticated copies of engineers' blueprints. MacArthur the licensed pilot and balloonist who ten years ago soared over the Arctic Circle in a basket of his own making, Q.E.D., Charlie MacArthur is no starry-eyed idealist. Charlie MacArthur is no nut. And having more or less settled that question, he can relax and go back to all the other things Charlie MacArthur is, including owner of the biggest clubhouse a boy and his gang could ever dream...
...trouble all started at the Century Plaza Hotel, where the sheik was staying. Waiter Mario Rivas claims he delivered a basket of fruit to the sheik's room and that the sheik was furious because the food was two hours late...
...sheik denies the whole incident. "I would never order a basket of fruit," he declares. "I am a diabetic and do not eat sweets or fruit...
...Eastern Conference. Trade-me talk has diminished, and playing time-and scoring-is now more evenly distributed than under Shue. The top three scorers-McGinnis, Erving and Collins-are all averaging close to 20 points a game. A running team that likes to roughhouse its way to the basket, Philadelphia still often has trouble working set plays, although Cunningham has his men passing the ball more than a year ago. Last season the 76ers ranked 13th in the league in assists; this year they are up to sixth place. Says San Antonio Coach Doug Moe: "They're playing much...