Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afraid to say that the council was weak on this issue. I told my colleagues that in view of our vital need for stability and central government authority, the council's decision to take custody of the hostages must be enforced. They passed the buck to me and took cover themselves...
...NASA have tried to brush off these fears, insisting that the pact seeks only to ensure the orderly exploitation of the moon-which contains great stores of aluminum, titanium, magnesium and other valuable metals. Says one annoyed State Department aide: "You'll still be able to make a buck off the moon, if there's a buck to be made there." Though the treaty says no part of the moon can become the exclusive preserve of any single country or organization, it does not forbid mining or exploration there. It stipulates only that such activities come under...
...BRILLIANT CAREER is almost a brilliant movie. Judy Davis's stunning performance as Sybylla Melvin, a woman who struggles with the career-vs.-marriage option, transforms a simple story into an honest and captivating film. But even her sensitive portrait of a person who has the courage to buck convention cannot completely transcend a simplistic script. Sybylla defies the limitations of Victorian society by ultimately choosing to pursue a career as an author; the film's flaw is not this decision, but the manner in which Sybylla reaches...
...with the faculty. Moving from the stacks of Yenching Library to a desk in an administrative building, Stanley has confronted a "set of problems that are natural and human." Nothing is abstract and unimaginable--from deciding on budget expenditures to dealing with undergraduate's problems. "This is where the buck stops," he says, adding that his hardest decisions come when he has to make tenure decisions. "To be deciding somebody else's future is very grave," he notes. But as Carleton's President Robert Edwards says, Stanley has survived in "great and glorious fashion. He has demonstrated that...
...hard to believe this is happening: the game, the Americans cheering for the Romanians, the peanut vendors, the officials almost killed by a flying puck, the people from Rochester, the buck popcorn, the announcement of the U.S. -Norway score, the ice, the lights, the political implications, the meaning, the flash bulbs. How much did your ticket cost...