Word: bucked
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...state's farmers. During his 2½ years in the bureau, Hillenbrand, previously a foreign correspondent, has reported many agriculture stories and developed a fondness for the men who farm. "They are some of the few Americans who really put the country ahead of making a buck," he says. "Many support the embargo; though, like Manhattan cab drivers, they never stop complaining about their...
...public confidence in the ability of economists to guide government to uninterrupted propserity was so high that the Nobel committee in Stockholm created an annual prize in the field. 1970 was the end of the so-called "Go-Go" years on the stock market, when anyone could make a buck, gasoline was still 35 cents a gallon, there was little unemployment and low inflation. Government could anything...