Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today's fast-buck standards, farming is a sucker bet. The risks greatly outweigh the rewards, unless, like Bauer, you count looking up from your chores to watch a flight of geese or down at some of the richest soil in the world. According to Sally's accounting, the year Rhodes hung around was so-so: the family netted $19,000 on a gross income...
...them on the bench? The racist manipulator who covers up his players' drug problems, illiteracy and criminal tendencies without trying to get them help? The egomaniac who pressures professors and administrators into preserving eligibility for Wolfpack cagers in his single-minded pursuit of NCAA glory and the all-mighty buck...
...ready to take offense. Although his parents were immigrants and he visited relatives in Manila and Taipei, this self-described "Chinese-Filipino-American, born-again-Christian kid from suburban Los Angeles" felt "scarcely more connection than the average white" between Asian life and his own. "I read Pearl Buck in high school and didn't see anything wrong. I still like Charlie Chan movies. The whole thing about being of Chinese descent seemed an interesting detail, as if I had red hair. But not everyone saw it that way." So Hwang embarked on Asian studies in an adolescent search...
...What is interesting about this operation is that we take anyone who walks in and that we are in the business of showing that people who self-select to come here do very well in courses that are not different in their level of rigor from term-time courses," Buck says...
Each fall, Buck consults with the department chairs to plan summer courses for their disciplines. Because the courses can be taken for degree credit, they must be approved by the department heads and the Faculty Council. The official expectation is that the classes will be as difficult as Harvard's term-time offerings...