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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then hit a pretty fadeaway jumper, came up with a resounding block on the defensive end, added two free throws, and finished the spurt with a bucket after a series of spin moves on the block that tied the score...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Comeback Bid Crushed By BU | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game last year—a mere drop in the bucket of in-state rivalries—a fan brought a 55-inch plasma screen TV and his own generator to a field outside the stadium, where he began a simulated OU-OSU game on his Xbox...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game Can't Top Oklahoma Football | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...automobile industry's lead, many firms--about half of all businesses--are conducting audits, requiring marriage licenses or birth certificates to verify coverage for some spouses and dependents. Ford has cut more than 50,000 people from its rolls and Chrysler 26,000. That's a drop in the bucket when you expect to spend $2.3 billion on health care, Chrysler spokesman David Elshoff says, "but at that amount, you're looking at every option to bring costs down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressure on Your Health Benefits | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...guard for a refill. Once a day, the captives were taken to the toilet in groups of five. Their hands bound behind them, they would queue up at a tap just outside the toilet. One by one, the captives were untied, and they filled a red plastic bucket with water and went in. The others would wait, still fettered, while a guard armed with an old AK-47 watched them carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disappeared of Iraq | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...when pollution strong enough to kill fish by the bucket-load becomes commonplace, it's more than the water that's tainted. The Yellow River's turning red may be another warning to Beijing of the perils that lurk in its waterways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Yellow River Runs Red | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

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