Word: basket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proud of our effort," Delaney-Smith said. "I'm proud of everything we brought on the floor. However, we're just not putting the ball in the basket. It was an ugly offensive game by both teams...
...movies through the decades have alternately embraced, lamented and spoofed this version of social hierarchical hell. The evil jocks and catty girls of Carrie got theirs in the end when good old outcast Carrie set them aflame at the Prom. The "diverse" group of a prom queen, geek, jock, basket case and criminal in The Breakfast Club learned the warm, fuzzy lesson that they can all be friends despite their social differences. And of course there is the ultimate in teen popularity movies, the brilliant Clueless, which mercilessly satirized ultra-rich Valley Girls and the high school scene...
...this overcooked Valentine. The plot centers around Gellar's Amanda Shelton, a young woman whose mother has died and left her to run the family restaurant. The film begins just as the restaurant is about to go under, until a mysterious man shows up and sells her a basket of live crabs. One escapes and leads her to Tim Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery), who becomes--surprise!--Amanda's new love interest. Suddenly, Amanda is whipping up fancy dishes to put Julia Child to shame--whatever Amanda is feeling as she makes them goes into the food. This leads...
Step 1: diversify. This is no time to have a lot of eggs in one basket. Generally you are free to reallocate stock bought with your contributions. If you've got 20% of your assets in your employer's stock, shift a portion into diversified stock mutual funds or, to get conservative, intermediate-term bond funds or guaranteed-income contracts. Stock your employer kicked in generally can't be touched. But some plans will let you reallocate those shares after you've been with the company a specified length of time or have reached...
...possessions later, Monti looted juniorguard Kate Thirolf in the backcourt, ducked underthe basket, flipped in the lay-up and drew a fouland roars from the 1,500-strong Lavietes Pavilionfaithful. Her free throw made it a four-point gamewith over 10 minutes to play...