Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although strongly backed by historical precedent, College Republicans will have to buck not only Kennedy's identification with Harvard, but a series of impressive Democratic showings in recent election-year polls as well...
...alas, the pride soon changes to anger as young hero learns that cars have a built-in obsolescence, that manufacturers don't want to them repaired. And the anger, thoroughly , leads to the logic of the fast buck--you can't beat the racket, join it. So the mechanic bills for repairs he doesn't make, and for those he does...
Williams tied the contest in the third quarter. Wing Perry Gates fired at the Crimson nets, and Bob Forbush's block left the ball rolling around in front of the goal. Center forward Clyde Buck picked the ball out of a scramble and ran it in for the Ephs...
...heart of the Carolinas' textile area, where Japanese imports are scorned and clerks have been known to apologize to customers for low-priced but well-made Japanese blouses. Buck Mauney's move was bold. He made it in August last year after his U.S.-equipped yarn mill had burned down. Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000. The best price for nearly comparable U.S. equipment was $540.-ooo. Furthermore, the Japanese equipment eliminates a full step...
Long Shoals, which makes yarn for weavers, has suffered no loss of custom ers because of its move. Explains Buck: "Most people forget we sell a lot of stuff to Japan. A man told me I was wrong to do it. I asked him why. He said. 'We fought a war with those people.' I said we fought two wars with Germany, and I lost a brother in the last one, and you bought a boiler from them. He said, 'That's different.' So I told him, I'm look ing ahead, not backwards...