Word: basketeer
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...career. You have potential and gifts and talents on the inside. Don't just get stuck there and say, "Well, this is all my family has ever done." My father grew up during the Great Depression. And they were very poor. They were the ones that got the Christmas basket because they were the poorest family. But my dad made a decision when he was 17. He said, "My children are not going to be raised like this. They're not going to be raised not having enough food and milk to drink." So he made a difference with...
...economic dependency to press Karzai to do better. "If we can start pressuring him to start cracking down on high-profile criminals and drug traffickers to show that he actually cares about rule of law, then he starts gaining legitimacy," says Dempsey. "Afghanistan is still going to be a basket case five years from now, but at least the perception that the head leadership is trying to move the country in the right direction will give people faith...
...Perhaps most notoriously, Teitel is accused of sending a booby-trapped gift basket in March 2008 to the home of an American family in Israel who belonged to a messianic Jewish sect. The homemade bomb seriously wounded a 15-year-old boy, Ami Ortiz, severing two of his toes, damaging his hearing and threatening his promising basketball career. (Read "As Tensions Rise, Jerusalem Could Pose a New Crisis...
...biggest basket cases - AIG and Citi - got into trouble not because they took risks; they got into trouble because they didn't know they were taking risks. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
Aggressively attacking the basket, co-captain Jeremy Lin showed everyone in attendance why he was named to the All-Ivy First Team last season. A tense moment came when an airborne Lin was knocked hard to the floor, but the star guard appeared no worse for wear...