Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jacquie Kimberly, meanwhile, denies any sexual involvement with Roxanne or Peter in any permutation. "It's so ludicrous," she told the Miami Herald. "Pulitzer is definitely deranged and desperate for the almighty buck. How can one take him seriously?" The Kimberlys met when she was 17, and seven years ago, they came close to divorcing. Both Jacquie Kimberly and Sportsman James Kimberly, who affects a single earring, have been subpoenaed to testify. Says Jacquie: "It's fortunate for me that my husband is such a strong, secure person." At least "in our fight," she adds, "no one else...
...wide. "Most of you think that I can shoot the eyes out of anything moving to the left, but not this time," said Watt. Then, like a Hemingway protagonist seeking to redeem himself, he stalked a second antelope. Though it did not count in the contest, he dropped the buck with a single shot from a standing position at 350 yds. -By Richard Stengel
THERE IS, in the political worlds an unfortunate tendency to pass the buck. Take for example, Tuesday's decision by the state legislature's Criminal Justice Committee to put a proposed death penalty bill on hold by sending it to the Ways and Means Committee for refinement. The boys at Justice are calculating they won't have to deal with the legislation again until after a state wide amendment to the constitution on the death sentence goes before the voters in November. Then should Massachusetts residents decide they want the chair the legislature will only be too happy to comply...
...naming the antidepressant drug Ludiomil in its teaser preapproval ads; one FDA official, however, has informally criticized preapproval drug ads by five other companies. Says Hayes: "We at the FDA have an obligation to work with those who have the power of the pen and the advertising buck to see that the right stuff gets...
...Bell's critics, the Government only seems to be passing the buck without the bucks. When the Administration's revised regulations and budget cuts trickle down to localities this fall, federal policies and funding will be felt as keenly by their absence as they once were by their presence. State legislators and school boards may be delighted with more discretionary power and less federal interference. But they will also find that they have less money to spend. This year's 26% decrease in funding will sharply affect Title I (aid for the disadvantaged), handicapped and vocational education...