Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Game five against the Pistons '87: This one is an obvious pick. The Celtics were facing a return to Detroit down three games to two. With five seconds left, Bird stole an inbounds pass from Isiah Thomas and hit a streaking Dennis Johnson for he game-winning bucket. I couldn't dream up a better scenario. Isiah Thomas was the goat, Larry the hero. I get goose bumps just thinking of the play...
Last weekend, the Crimson tipped off its Ivy League season with inspired victories over Princeton and Pennsylvania. In Saturday's contest alone, 12 Harvard players contributed to a 92-69 win over the Quakers, and 10 Harvard players hit at least one bucket for the Crimson. This weekend, this same dirty dozen will be primed to face rival Dartmouth...
When the students enter the lab, they see the cadavers set up on metal tables. The bodies are covered first with layers of plastic and material to keep them moist, and then with a blue denim-like cloth. A metal bucket at the end of the table collects the excess formaldehyde that drains from the body. "Sometimes [the bucket] seems like it's getting a little full," says Elbert Huang...
Another plastic bucket under the table is for the removed organs. All parts are kept and eventually buried with the body at the Medical School's burial ground in Tewksbury, or else returned to the donor's family...
...numbers do not add up," says a committee report. Noting that Clinton's plan would over four years produce reductions of about $4 billion in the growth of such entitlement programs as Social Security and Medicare, the committee sees this as a very small drop in a very large bucket. By 1996, notes the group, "entitlement spending is projected to exceed $900 billion...