The trick is to root out both the basket-cases and also those who don't need help.

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As the site notes, those driver diaphragms should be less likely to blow-out, and the basket behind 'em have also been updated with a cleaner fit and finish.

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Today she owns roughly half a dozen pieces of his work, including hyacinths spilling out of an 18th-century basket, a white rose plant in a clay pot, and a bouquet of clematis.

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The accommodations feature earth tone colours, a fully equipped kitchen, two queen beds, a queen-size pull-out couch and a welcome basket for escapees.

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Knicks guard Iman Shumpert, who first guarded Lin during lockout exhibition games and now does in practice, said his possessions play out like this: When he's close to the basket, he starts an "in-and-out" dribble with his knees bent and his arm straight forward, creating the idea he can go inside or outside and he does both.

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When fire broke out, the 49-year-old jumped from the balloon's basket but Mrs Rennie, who was 48, was among 19 tourists killed.

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But the stronger Japanese firms do not want to sell out to foreigners, and foreigners do not want to risk buying a basket-case.

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"Get the ghosts of Christmas past out of there -- all those little cans of this and that, the beef sticks from the gift basket no one can bear to throw out, " says Ewer.

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James White's four-color monthly, the Payson Patriot, zaps the town's government for overspending, crusades against domestic violence and ferrets out the cheapest supermarkets (a comparison-shopping article found Wal-Mart beat competitors like Safeway for a basket of staple items).

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