Word: bucked
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...almost $339 billion. This year it seems headed higher still, to around $400 billion. In theory that creates an excessive supply of dollars in the world. Like an excessive supply of wheat or anything else, that ought to drive down the international price of a buck...
...going to be making the final decision. The buck never stops with you and as a result you are never sure if you are not going to be undermined...if you show your hand, that might be trumped by one of the deans or the president, where the buck does stop," the person who has served as an Overseer says...
...someone like Provost Fineberg who was a dean and was accustomed to having the buck stop with him, that's tough," the person says...
...Athletics were the healthy core of an undergraduate life, Buck preached, and slowly turned admissions to his side...
...Buck, in his attempts to counterbalance the more introverted, private school "floppy ducklings," as he called them, advocated digging deeper into the public schools and his initiatives have slowly developed into Harvard's present dense web of more than 6,000 actively recruiting alumni...