Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Group will tell the House subcommittee on Space. Science and Applications that "you can get a very large space science bang for the buck since the science is so well developed," Parker L. Coddington, Harvard's director of governmental relations and a member of the Group's steazing committee, said yesterday...
...contrived plot centers on Captain Billy Buck Candler (Tune), an ace flyer who plans to become the first man to fly across the Atlantic to Paris, but whose passion for Edythe Herbert (Twiggy), an aquatic star, overwhelms his passion for the air. Edythe, however, is under the watchful and lustful eye of Prince Nicolai (Bruce McGill), the "Aquacade's" manager, who threatens to show Billy embarrassing photographs of Edythe and prevent their union. This "conflict" functions merely as a device to leave Billy and Edythe separated, but still in love, at the end of the first act. (Sometime during...
Gentlemen's Quarterly asked him to pose doing a buck-and-wing. But it's his new megabuck-and-change contract that really has St. Louis Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, 28, kicking up his heels. Last week "the Wizard of Oz," as he is known around Busch Stadium, doubled his old salary in a pact with the 1982 World Series-winning Cards that will make him the highest-paid shortstop in major league history: a reported $1 million a year. Oz's golden-brick road will run for at least the next three seasons...
...PACs have gotten maximum bang for the buck by focusing on committee members and other legislators whose constituents are not affected by a specific bill. Such members are only happy to receive a check in exchange for a vote that won't hurt their chances for reelection. In the words of Sen. Russell Long (D-La.): "When you talking in terms of large campaign contributions...the distinction between a campaign contribution and a bribe is almost hair's difference...
...bonus: there are no penalties for wrong answers. The weight of the argument and the heat of the debate are what count now. And of all the people who have floated these questions into the cultural ozone?scientists and sociologists, computer freaks and microchip madmen, quick-buck artists and free-falling futurists?none has kept them aloft for so long, or turned them to such profitable purpose, as Steven Paul Jobs...