Word: bucked
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...Buck Zuckerman, a Wall Streeter married to the actress Ruth Taylor (she played Lorelei Lee in the 1928 film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), would go downtown to work each morning, peddle stocks until mid-afternoon, come home and take a nap - so he could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside...
...Dell Computer is to buck the trend and continue to record its accustomed average annual revenue growth of 33%, it must in the future wrest market share away from Legend. That won't be easy. About one out of every three PCs sold on the mainland carries the Legend brand. "Legend has such a dominating presence in China, across all [market] segments," says Rajnish Arora, a server analyst for tech-consultancy IDC. "They aren't going to give it up easily." Kirk Yang, a Credit Suisse First Boston analyst, says, "Legend has a great brand name in China...
...running coverage of the Iran hostage crisis. It grew into the respected institution it is because of ABC's initial desire to cover day by day, new news or not, a hot story - that is, its desire, dare we say it, to capitalize in the ratings and make a buck...
...course, every song from those kids on the street corner is a play-anywhere, burn-anytime MP3. The big guys may promise more with their secure and speedy downloads, but I'm not switching until I get a file I can keep for, say, a buck a pop. Locking up your mediocre collection is no way to run a music store...
...credibility gap without mirror-imaging U.S. forces. These in any case waste billions on costly "legacy programs" designed for the cold war at the expense of transformational new weapon systems needed for future, more complicated conflicts. Smarter procurement would enable Europe to get more bang for the defense buck. The U.S. can afford to spend $350 billion on three new kinds of tactical fighter, but Europe should be shopping for drones that can carry out many of the tasks of unmanned aircraft at a fraction of the cost. Europe also needs to get its organizational act together. Every six months...