Word: bucked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twenty-eight year old Theo Epstein was hired as the team’s general manager in a gutsy move to buck the “old baseball minds know best” strategy that produces consistent losers. With luck, Epstein will follow in the footsteps of young guns J.P. Riccardi and Billy Beane as revolutionary general managers. The current GMs of the Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland A’s, respectively, are known for making cutting-edge trades that infuse productive young talent into their organizations...
...your report on the coolest inventions of the year [Nov. 18]: Many of the inventions employ digital electronics with no outward sign of a complicated computer. These inventions will help us build products that will improve the quality of life without too much technological complexity. BUCK KULKARNI White Plains...
...that Wright is opposed to making a buck or two in the real world. The Sims Online belongs to an emerging category of computer games that use the Internet to put players into a three-dimensional shared virtual world. These games can be ferociously addictive: the most successful example of the genre, Sony's Everquest, is known to its player-inhabitants as "Evercrack...
Wasserman said Frondel made reference to a ray gun possessed by a popular comic strip hero of the day to explain strange glass formations in the lunar rock samples, saying, “They’re zap craters, like in Buck Rogers...
...SAMSUNG SC-D80 Yes, this digital camcorder is bulky--it won't win any design contests--but it's priced right and fully equipped. It's got 680,000-pixel resolution, 10X zoom lens, image stabilizer and "Nite Pix" for shots in the dark. Want bang for your buck? Shoot in this direction. www.samsungusa.com...