Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other members of the first team were wings Elias Lwowski of Cornell and Bob Power of Yale; insides Ed Harrison of Princeton and Jerry Pepper of Dartmouth; fullbacks Dick Matlack of Princeton and Lou Buck of Penn; and goalie Dave Smoyer of Dartmouth...
...license plate. All were in moods ranging from festive to rambunctious. Said Rancher Bob Lahde, who "takes in" hunters: "You can tell how keyed up these hunters are by the way they eat. First day, they'll take maybe one of my bear-burgers. Then they get a buck, and my wife and I can't get enough food moving to them...
Despite the swarming hunters, there are so many deer (in some areas 30 per sq. mi.) that there are roughly only three hunters for every legal buck (one with antlers at least 3 in. long). All are looking for the "big horse," a stag weighing over 200 Ibs. with a ten-point rack...
...Buck Well Spent. Once a buck is bagged, many a hunter makes a beeline for Hurley, Wis. (pop. 2,763), affectionately known as the "Tijuana of the North." Traditionally, a triumphal entry into Hurley can only be achieved with a gutted buck on one's fender. To take care of this technicality, many trophyless hunters buy a bootleg buck for $40 or $50 from a local deerslayer, ride into town without having fired a shot. Hurley's six-block Silver Street is jammed with 56 bars, aswarm with dough-eyed girls...
...growth of automation is also hard on smaller businessmen: most of them cannot afford to buy automated gear, but they must buck the steadily lower production costs-and selling prices-of the larger operators who can. To copper their bets against gyrations in consumer demands, bigger companies are diversifying into retail areas that have long been dominated by smaller dealers, e.g., mail-order houses have begun to sell prescription drugs, supermarkets are selling hardware and garden supplies. And the increase of cut-rate imports hurts smaller, single-product businessmen more than those who market a broad line...