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Almost immediately after entering the game, Baskerville, a University of Nevada at Las Vegas transfer who had become eligible for team play that afternoon, sank his first shot, a jumper from the corner. He went on to top the Owls with 16 points and 13 rebounds. He sank the winning basket in the last two minutes of the game...
...move in herds to pick up bargains that by past standards seem remarkable. But so far every such rally has quickly run into a wall of selling by investors seizing the first opportunity to get out and cut their losses, and the recent one was no exception; the Dow sank at midweek, and despite a Friday bounce closed at 815.65, down 22.40 for the week...
Only captain Tony Jenkin's technical foul shot after the buzzer salvaged a victory. With less than one second left and the score tied at 64-64, a confused Dartmouth player called an illegal sixth timeout. Jenkins sank the resulting technical foul shot to give Sanders his first coaching...
...ordinary filling-station look of a dentist's office is obscene, repulsive," says Frankel. "I hate it. Why can't dental offices be beautiful?" Indeed, Frankel and Winograde are so convinced of the importance of aesthetic surroundings that they sank about $50,000 into decor alone, compared with about $1,500 spent on furnishing a typical dentist's office. The Beverly Hills dentists have also catered to the other senses; in addition to the soft carpets and music, they offer nervous patients sherry and cognac. More effective anesthetics are also available: a sign at the reception desk...
...Dougal Robertson did what many men only dream of. Trading his farm for Lucette, a 43-ft. wooden schooner, he set off on a round-the-world cruise. Eighteen months later and 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands, his yacht was hit by killer whales and sank in one minute. Robertson, his wife Lyn, their three sons, Douglas, 18, and the twins Neil and Sandy, 12, and a Welsh student guest, Robin Williams, 22, were adrift on the Pacific...