Word: bucks
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...ensure the ruble's convertibility" by the year 2000. So Sovietologists in the West were caught by surprise last week when Gosbank announced that it would devalue the Soviet currency 90% for transactions that do not involve imports or exports. Foreign visitors will get much more bang for their buck: 6.26 rubles per dollar. But Soviet citizens traveling abroad will receive a paltry 16 cents per ruble instead of the official $1.60, which will seriously hamper their ability to go on shopping trips abroad for scarce consumer goods...
Memere's, a Louisiana-style restaurant in Oak Park, Ill., has a loyal clientele for its rattlesnake gumbo. The New Deal restaurant in New York City's Soho is corralling herds of diners with its beaver empanada, kangaroo yakitori and black-buck antelope. Next month Fallow Deer Associates of Hudson, N.Y., will begin supplying health-food stores with prepackaged ground venison and venison burgers...
...evaluate the test. He was astonished: something had moved inside a silver Chevrolet Sprint. Excited rescuers crawled cautiously closer. They found a man, alive and semiconscious, still strapped into the front seat. When a paramedic shouted, the man moved his head. Struggling gingerly for five hours, they extricated Buck Helm, 57, a shipping clerk, who managed to wave an arm as he was lifted to a waiting ambulance amid the cheers of exultant searchers. His condition was described as critical but stable. He had survived 90 hours in what for so many others had been a tomb...
Longshoreman Buck Helm, who spent four days in a tomb of I-880 concrete and steel, was in criticalstable condition at Highland General Hospital in Oakland with some slight improvement, hospital officials said...
...illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner cities, while ironically perpetuating the stereotype of all African-American...