Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Corruption does not usually increase fighting tenacity, as it did for the Saigon troops; they killed 300 Communist soldiers. More often Saigon's fighting effort is being bled by industrious attempts to make a buck out of the war, according to a secret report by psychological-warfare officers that was recently submitted to President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Like President Truman and President Lincoln before him, I found on my desk, where the buck stops, the urgent problem of how to bind up the nation's wounds. And I intend to do that...
...Environmental Protection Agency, defining precisely what constitutes "significant deterioration" posed the familiar dilemma of economy v. ecology. How strictly could the agency interpret the law without disastrous economic consequences? After months of searching for a solution, the EPA has just proposed that it avoid the issue by passing the buck to the states...
...make a "deal" with the former President would be a breach of faith with the future. The American people have had enough secret deals and plea bargaining. There must be no more deals. Now I think we have to go back to Harry Truman's statement, "The buck stops here," and apply it to the prosecutors and the courts. If any deals are made with the ex-President, I fear that much of our agony has been in vain...
...effect, been overruled by a bureaucratic device. FDA referred the question of cyclamate safety to the National Academy of Sciences and its working arm, the National Research Council. The prestige of these bodies gives a false aura of objectivity to their findings, says Verrett, because the NRC passes the buck to an advisory panel of "experts," most of whom are partly supported by the industry concerned or institutions that it finances. Such men, says Dr. Verrett, "are sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Hertz Rent-a-Scientists.' " (See nine kid foods to avoid...