Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antagonize Reagan, and yet Ford's advisers say he does not want the Californian on the ticket. He considers Reagan too far to the right to provide the proper ideological balance. But if Ford is nominated by only a skimpy margin, he faces two unappealing options: he can buck the Reagan delegates and dare to pick his own man, or he can throw open the second spot to the convention floor, which will surely regard Reagan favorably...
...give to people to sit back and become concerned with far-reaching questions about our society. Harvard should be breeding people who are going to help this society look at how the pie is divided, not how to get a bigger slice for themselves. Life is more than a buck, and I felt that all these people with a golden opportunity to do something for others were just slipping into a slot where it was easy for them to make it; they are cheating themselves, allowing themselves to be less than they could be, fitting the mold when they...
...those who emerge from the obstacle course have no conception of the basic human needs and values that underlie the service-delivery professions and instead allocate their skills according to the market: that is, to the big corporate law firms and lucrative medical practices that bring the big buck...
...roll's self-styled androgyne and master of weirdness, appears, true to form, as an android come to earth in search of water for his drought-ridden planet. He takes the name Thomas Jerome Newton, seeks out a patent attorney named Oliver Farnsworth (nicely played by Buck Henry) and shows him equations for some elementary inventions from his own world. These creations-like self-developing film in fully automatic cameras-become the foundation of a vast industrial empire run by Farnsworth, who is answerable only to the mysterious, reclusive Newton...
...Carter family members. Several weeks ago, Brother-in-Law Walter G. Spann sold to seven south Georgians, for less than $1,000, half an acre of land near the Carter peanut warehouse in Plains. Carter discovered, much to his dismay, that the investors were trying to turn a quick buck by selling the land as 1-sq.-in. "peanut farms" for $5 each, complete with red-white-and-blue certificates of ownership. One of his sisters, Gloria Carter Spann, bought the first of the several hundred little inches that have already been sold, and her husband has purchased 500 shares...