Word: bucked
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...discounts available for machines and other gym equipment. If Houses cannot plan coordination themselves, the College or Council should offer to help the gyms pool their resources as well—such creative coordination between Houses will guarantee that students get the most bang for Harvard’s buck...
...anyone who joined the Smoke-out this or any year, I offer my good wishes. Buck up, stub it out, and watch the minute hand of your cigaretteless day creep like an hour hand. My aim here is not to defend smoking; I freely acknowledge that, as a hobby (all right, a habit), it smells, and that Woody Allen was probably being satirical when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that...
...history tabbed for the award—and three All-New England nods, and is well on his way to earning another of each. This is in addition to being selected as the Ancient Eight’s Rookie of the Year in 2000 and a finalist for the Buck Buchanan award last year, presented to the top defender in the nation...
...disarmingly simple concept: sell songs in digital format for less than a buck and let buyers play them whenever and wherever they like--as long as it's on an Apple iPod. Jobs had proved the idea back in April when he launched the Music Store for Mac users, who represent only 3% of the computer world but promptly gobbled up a million tracks in the first week of business. By October he was ready to set the Music Store aloft in the 97% of the world that uses Windows PCs, and the prospect of converting millions of music pirates...
...told, my grandmother used a belt as a harness to lift him from wheelchair to bed. Although his mind was failing by then—most of our family had become strangers to him, myself included; few things are more painful—he somehow retained his buck-passing jujitsu. The belt hurt his back, and he was not about to buy my grandmother’s explanation that “I can’t get you up without that belt.” It was not his frailty, but her weakness?...