Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should we care? Because if the buck falls out of bed, there's trouble ahead. Consumers will have to pay more for imports, which can light a fire under inflation. Imports make up more than 17% of all consumer goods bought in the U.S., or $407 billion, up from only 5.4%, or $19.2 billion...
...venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck conventional wisdom and open an online store this fall...
...Crimson can stop Gould and an aggressive Bulldog attack they may well buck tradition and send the Elis home with yet another disheartening defeat...
...Everyone passes the buck," Tan says...
Unfortunately, I also tend to poach the bills out of her piggy bank late at night to pay the baby sitter or the pizza guy. (One night I even dipped into her petty cash to slip a buck under her pillow from the tooth fairy...