Word: bucked
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...Higher Education Act Amendments, the bill that amended FERPA, was sponsored by Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon...
...million people identified themselves as multiracial, and 15% of births in California are of mixed heritage. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Oscar-winning kung fu flick, was more popular in Middle America than it was in the Middle Kingdom. In Hollywood, where Eurasian actors once were relegated to buck-toothed Oriental roles, the likes of Keanu Reeves, Dean Cain and Phoebe Cates play leading men and women, not just the token Asian. East and West have met, and the simple boxes we use for human compartmentalization are overflowing, mixing, blending. Not all of us can win four consecutive major golf...
It’s all so utterly convenient, isn’t it. Tyranny rears its head, women and children are slaughtered. We are not man enough to buck up, take responsibility, and send an army down to impose our will, or to simply admit, honestly, that the events do not concern us, and that the time and money are better spent at home. This would be—gasp!—imperialistic, or it would be callous. It would not be easy, and we need it to be easy...
...timing exquisite. Central bankers and Treasury men hate making their moves against the inertial wind - it wastes juice to try turning the markets around - and whether or not Greenspan was actually market-timing (he'd prefer that you think not), he certainly got the most bang for his buck. With an earnings-based rally already on, the index charts all grew a near-vertical line at 10:50 a.m. when the news hit. Three hours later, the party was still going - the Dow was up over 400 points and the NASDAQ nearly 200, and traders were suddenly remembering the good...
...most Ivy weekends, Walsh is inclined to save Birtwell for the series finale. By doing so, Walsh assures himself that whatever happens through the first three games of the weekend, the buck stops with Birtwell...