Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stamps, and 2.5 million retired military and federal employees. But the index has had two serious drawbacks: it is based on the spending patterns of only urban blue-collar and clerical employees, who now constitute less than 45% of the population, and it was compiled by pricing a "market basket" of goods and services compiled back...
...Labor Department's 360 price inspectors (all but a handful of whom are housewives) had been checking the prices of some products that hardly anyone buys any more: pedal pushers, garter belts, bobby pins. Such obsolete articles were thrown out of the 400-item market basket and many newer ones substituted. The BLS shoppers will now price, for example, joggers' warmup suits, pocket calculators, birth control pills and wine...
...paper plates sag under an awesome spectrum of stewed, spiced, fried, mashed, sweetened or rolled vegetables. A smiling baby lies between its parents, who sit cross-legged, eating peacefully. A little boy with a short pony tail and white robe, a Hare Krishna miniature, collects donations with a wicker basket, directed around the temple by his mother...
Yale calmly rebuffed the Crimson's comeback, as they continually victimized the overzealous Harvard defense. Liebowitz and her teammates smartly sidestepped the dives of the frustrated, clawing Crimson defense and proceeded to the basket unmolested to score two points for the Elis. The game then became an exercise in restraint, as Harvard began to find itself in foul trouble...
Cornell increased its lead to 63-54 before a Harvard point spurt, capped by a Rich Bengel basket, tied the game once again at 65-65. Neither team could take command in the next few minutes and the score remained tied, 77-77, with 3:58 left in the game...