Word: bucked
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...People think that stuff with soul is free, but they’ll buy water for a buck fifty at a 7-11,” Corrigan said. “They won’t pay for a song. Are you kidding...
...means, “You want me to go where? Funny. That’s a good one.” A lot of times the drivers will put up two fingers in response to my query, which means they want me to pay double the fare, or one buck. When this happens I usually roll out a toothy smile and an Arabic “Please uncle?” to try to avoid paying more. It usually works, though I hear that the drivers fleece many foreigners who don’t know the system. William M. Rasmussen...
...Blair made yet another miraculous escape - wounded, yet still alive for now. Mandarins don't gun down Prime Ministers. In a 160-page report that Blair ordered up in February after President Bush succumbed to pressure for a U.S. inquiry, Butler found no good place for the British buck to stop. "No single individual was to blame," he said. "There was no deliberate attempt on the part of the government to mislead ? It was a weakness on the part of all those who were involved." Nevertheless, though he prefers the stiletto to the sledgehammer, Butler did chronicle a damning parade...
...registry system, and the A.M.A. has a proposal on the table. Doctors met last week with Democratic lawmakers who are considering legislation that would require disclosure of results. Meanwhile, some drugmakers, among them GSK and Merck, have indicated that they are more inclined to back the trend than to buck...
These breezy B's, terrestrial siblings to the Buck Rogers serials, might not have been film literature, but they were the equivalent of expert speed typing. In them Reagan proved himself engaging, snappy, in command. When he figured no one was looking, he could be well worth watching...