Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buck dropped and bullion soared, the Administration talked action...
...when the President appeared before the TV cameras he had nothing new to say. He spoke of his confidence in the U.S.'s "underlying economic strength," expressed hope that a narrowing U.S. trade deficit and a topping out of American inflation this year would eventually strengthen the battered buck-and let it go at that. Even as Carter was speaking, the dollar began sliding again. Though it rose smartly the next day, following an announcement by Blumenthal that there would be "a series of continuing actions" to bolster the dollar in coming weeks, no one could be sure that...
...cleverness. And these folks had the good luck to be really funny during the late '60s, a period that called for an unusually strong and radically different sense of humor. Some of the writers probably had trust funds--certainly one of them majored in Economics--because they knew a buck when they smelled one, and when they all graduated they somehow got the rights to the Lampoon name and went to New York to start a humor magazine...
Japan was not a good place for Americans to be last week, and Europe was not much better. The bruised and battered buck was staggering through another glassy-eyed performance of its Incredible Shrinking Act; and when the curtain dropped at week's end, the star performer looked more frazzled and anemic than ever...
...sample of the prices and pitches at New Jersey's Englishtown Auction Sales, the largest flea market in the mid-Atlantic region: $3.75 for a solid leather belt ("Why pay a buck for a bonded belt that will become brittle and broken?"); a still-to-be-dickered price for a potbellied-stove door ("When you need it, you need it"); $1.75 for a goldfish ("You get the bowl, you get the sand, you get the fish, you get two weeks' supply of fish food"). Says Steve Sobechko, who owns the Englishtown market: "It's a great recycling...