Word: basketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospitals. Around the U.S., correspondents reported on the shivers that New York's threatened bankruptcy is sending through national financial markets. Says Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who catalogued the effects on other cities trying to borrow in order to meet expenses: "There's a virtual fruit basket of problems. The rot of the Big Apple could spoil a whole bunch of cities." From Washington, Correspondents David Beckwith and John Stacks cabled reports on the debate over extending federal aid, while Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill and Marta Dorion combed the dense and often deceptive budgetary studies that measure...
...picture of the Great Pink Snail where a couple is peering through a wicker-basket fence at some person, or thing, or phenomenon you will never know...
...THERE IS a flaw in the fund drive it is in the de-emphasis of plans for an additional complex on Observatory Hill near the Quadrangle. University officials have decided to put the fate of that complex in the same basket as the Quad's future as a House system, thus stalling its development until a new House plan is chosen. Such reasoning seems silly if you consider that much of the Quad's lack of popularity lies in its distance from the present Soldiers Field facilities. The new complex will tilt that imbalance even heavier toward the River House...
...didn't say that. It's difficult to win the Ivies and go undefeated, because there are too many factors involved. For example, if we play a team with less talent, but we have midterms that week, we're at a disadvantage. At Alabama, where players take basket weaving 1,2, there are no problems...
Like most of the peoples in the new breed of basket case nation-states, Bengalis live close to the soil, love and have many children, suffer hunger and sickness, work hard, and die young. The Bengalis are by one estimate 95 percent illiterate, which puts them in the running for least educated people in the world. Although Central Africa has the distinction of being the world's most unhealthy region, health conditions in Bangladesh are none too good--the delta is the place where cholera and smallpox originated and is regularly stricken with diseases the West forgot about centuries...