Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only grabbed his tail and made a wild grab for his ear in order to guide him around properly when he stuck his head between my legs, backed me into the center of the lot, and when I went to get off threw me over his head with a buck and a bawl...
...each discovering more than $800 an hour in delinquent taxes. Of $63 million collected so far, more than 80% came from corporations that had ducked income and sales levies. Says Tax Enforcement Commissioner E. Roe Rogers: "We call it selective auditing, or getting the most bang for our buck...
...have encountered before. The refusal of EPA Administrator Anne M. Burford (formerly Gorsuch) to surrender subpoenaed documents, the mysterious use of a paper-shredder to dispose of the documents in question, President Reagan's defense of Burford's obstinacy on the grounds of "executive privilege," the frantic passing-the-buck of various EPA administrators on the witness stand--all of these are too reminiscent of the Watergate hearings to read about without shivering a little...
True military reform, getting more bang for each buck, will involve fundamental changes at all levels of the weapons procurement process. The first step must be to determine accurately the costs of weapons. Contractors and Pentagon program directors should not be allowed to "buy into" long-term procurements with pie-in-the-sky price projections. Contractors should bear direct financial responsibility for cost overruns. This would force the Pentagon to refrain from "gold-plating" and tinkering with designs once a weapon moves into production...
...basic weapons such as tanks and rifles. The reformers argue that new systems should be carefully examined not only for what they can do on paper, but what they can do in actual combat-and at what cost. The central question: how to get more bang for the buck...