Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plus 30? per kilometer, plus gas, which can cost $1.75 per gal. on an autobahn. Obviously, the U.S. tourist needs to plan his trip with pfennig-pinching, shilling-saving, franc-squeezing acumen. If he does so, the wary wayfarer can still get a lot for his shrunken buck. Items...
...girl he settled on already has a regal air. "She was very different from most of the females at Princeton, more determined," recalled an architecture-school classmate last week. "She was a controlled person." Known to her close friends as "Buck," she worked hard at her studies but liked to organize dinners and parties. She dropped out for a year to attend a photography workshop in Aspen, where she developed into a competent skier; she also plays a mean game of tennis and squash...
...region, there is no quick cure for a dying ecosystem that took thousands of years to create. The Brazilian government has offered fiscal incentives for reforestation of the area, but profit-hungry companies respond by planting Australian eucalyptus and American pine, trees better suited for making a quick buck than for restoring an original habitat. Says Ruschi: "There are laws prohibiting the killing of rare species, but there are no laws preventing the destruction of the whole forest." Environmentalists are calling for conservation, but for many Brazilians, economic development remains the top priority-even in the face of ecological devastation...
VERY FEW ROCK ALBUMS being cut these days will ever be worth a buck in a used record store five years from now. They come sealed and shrink-wrapped with all the Hollywood tack your subconscious can handle. They all inevitably get billed as "masterpieces" or "significant works" by their publishers and some suspiciously sympathetic reviewers--the music in the grooves is a mere excuse to sell the package...
...intended bride. In the first play the servant had an alliance with the master; here he plots against his master. That was a revolutionary thing to do in France in 1784. And the audience's attitude during the first play is that we love the Count as a young buck chasing after the girls, but he becomes a villain in the second half because of the same qualities that made him a hero in the first--only now he's married. The play ends with a pithy interchange on the nature of love and marriage. It's quite fascinating...