Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dobrynin has been in every classy parlor in Georgetown. He probably knows as many key Cabinet officers, committee chairmen, bankers, industrialists, journalists and other assorted U.S. power brokers as anyone in the city. Dobrynin has soared across the nation in the private jets of capitalists, put down a buck or two at the Kentucky Derby, poked around the Alaskan pipeline, biked in blue jeans with his granddaughter, and assaulted a Big Mac with a gusto rivaling that of the Chicago Bears' William ("the Refrigerator") Perry...
Because of the booming supply, cocaine users are getting far more buzz for their buck. Even though U.S. coke consumption went up 11% in 1984, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the price has dropped from $100 a gram to as low as $60 in some cities. Meanwhile, well-stocked dealers have substantially boosted the purity of street cocaine, which makes the drug more attractive than ever...
...this day, Harris attends to the nuts and bolts of running Fisk. "We can't afford thermostats," he was saying recently. "Either the heat is on or off. You just have to figure out the retention rate of your buildings." Always looking for ways to save a buck, Harris has put bricks in the tanks of all the toilets. "It reduces your water consumption by one-third, believe...
There was just one little catch. The shop was a sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used...
...odds were so staggering that no one had ever bothered to figure them out. Even though Evelyn Marie Adams had already won $3.9 million in New Jersey's Pick-6 lottery last October, it did not stop her from plunking down another buck. In fact, she raised her weekly total bet from 60 to 100 tickets. And, wonder of numbers, she hit again last week, this time for nearly $1.5 million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds...