Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always heartening to see an art revived, especially when you have forgotten how much pleasure it affords. The art of buck passing, for instance. It popped to life in New York a couple of weeks ago when Bruce Caputo, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, was caught as having described himself as a Viet Nam-era draftee and Army lieutenant. Mr. Caputo was neither. Yet when confronted with the fact that he had falsified his credentials in Who's Who in American Politics, he rose to the occasion as Michelangelo once rose to the ceiling: "To the extent that...
...stole $60,000 from his company, he cited "neurotic displays of self-destructiveness." Political necessity is a good excuse as well-the Soviets, for example, explaining their invasion of Afghanistan as a gesture to save Afghanistan. Then there is the "I don't recall," a sort of buck pass to one's memory. Blaming the state is a standby too, as are blaming modernity, one's mother, the computer and the post office. "The dog ate my homework" is a favorite with schoolchildren. And a new plane of inventiveness was reached recently when a Virginia man killed...
...cross-country are not concocted from thrills and chills. Many tourers are family groups that simply strike out from the back door after a snowfall. Unplowed roads, golf courses and frozen lakes provide paths for the basis of the sport: rhythmic, exhilarating exercise in the country air. Observes Buck Elliott, operator of Colorado's Crooked Creek Ski Touring ranch: "We're back to a simpler life. Out here, you become more aware of what breathing and eating are all about." -ByJ.D. Reed...
...know, these final editorials have a tendency to stress a single theme--we should all go out to try to change the world instead of chasing the almighty buck on Wall Street or Silicon Valley or Route 128 or wherever people are engaged in the task of buck chasing...
...also passing the buck, even if one credits the statistics. The matter may be a lot simpler, and more daunting, than anything on a balance sheet. With the record companies concerned mostly about making records that radio will play, and with the radio stations unable to play anything but what the record companies give them, the music may just have got lost in a lot of corporate second-guessing. It may just have slipped out of context...