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Phillips and Webster look to be the heart and sole of the Crimson offense. The former has shown the ability to stick it from anywhere within 18 feet of the basket, and the latter combines good outside shooting and the ability to drive with unmatched intensity...
Fans carrying containers of purportedly non-alcoholic beverages like orange juice, tomato juice, or cranberry juice, will enter through specially designated "package gates." Officials will search each picnic basket and thermos, dumping any alcoholic contents, says the athletic official. However, he adds, "It sure is hard to check Irish Coffee...
...performance has delayed $113 million in IMF loans. Inflation is expected to hit 25% this year, while the Philippines' 15% unemployment and 40% underemployment rates are the highest in the region. The Philippines, Bernardo Villegas of Metro Manila's independent Center for Research and Communications claims, "is the economic basket case" of the Asia-Pacific region. Villegas traces most of the problems to "the excesses of crony capitalism and other forms of political patronage...
With the afternoon light fading, the first of three babies, all girls, was lowered in a wire rescue basket down a long ladder to ecstatic applause and cheers. Miners hugged one another. Some medical experts felt that the excess fat and surplus water in the tissues of the newborn had helped them to survive for such an extended period. They also assumed that the infants, having so recently emerged from the darkness of the womb, were less subject than older children or adults to the stress of being buried alive...
...small firm. At General Research in Santa Barbara, SDI contracts accounted for more than 8% of revenues in fiscal 1985, and that percentage is likely to grow rapidly. Nonetheless, says Leslie Wells, an assistant to the company's president, "we're not putting all our eggs in the SDI basket. It's not something that's going to cause the company to come to a screeching halt if it's discontinued...