Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed by the President. Explained a Kemeny commission member: ''We felt that when you have a collegial body, you delay decision-making while searching for the lowest common denominator of agreement.'' A single director, on the other hand, ''can't pass the buck in an emergency...
...evil in the international monetary system.'' In this huge worldwide market, currencies can be traded almost instantly and without restraint. This fosters monetary instability, and since the dollar is such a large part of the system, the instability can drive down the value of the buck. Private bankers and corporate finance officers can wildly exaggerate any currency's weakness and cause its value to plummet as they unload billions of uncontrolled Eurodollars with a few telex messages...
...dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded in the waning years of their lives. The Picture History of the Boston Red Sox has all the pictures, and the folksie, barstool chatter extracts the Bostonese from personages like: Buck O'Brien, Smokey Joe Wood, Sad Sam Jones, Jumping Joe Dugan, and Yaz, to name...
Senior Reed Eichner scrambled for the last couple of miles to take 15th for the Crimson, while teammate Buck Logan garnered 20th. Turning in his strongest performance of the season, captain Thad McNulty took 25th and Noel Scidmore rounded out the Harvard scoring with a 30th-place finish...
...vague to be handled by normal administrative channels. The group's membership, drawing together the major officers from both Harvard and Radcliffe, separates it from the run-of-the-mill University committee. The Joint Policy Committee is, in essence, the last resort--the place where the buck may finally stop on the long and tortuous administrative path. "It's really there to settle thorny problems." says senior corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 who sits on the committee. "I like to think of it as a safety valve...