Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's chances of making further gains, however, were not improved by last week's off-year elections. Clinton campaigned hard for New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, but both lost. That may cause many Democrats to ask, in effect: Why should I buck anti- NAFTA sentiment in my district to please a President whose ability to help me win re-election is suspect? One Congressman who admits he found the results "unsettling" is Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a state where labor is strong and every other Democratic Representative has come out against...
...league's preseason media poll this yearplaced Columbia in dead last by a large margin,and for good reason. With the league's leadingscorer, Buck Jenkins, and his mates Tom Casey, ParDowning and Omar Sanders all gone, Coach JackRohan will enter this year with considerably lowerexpectations than he did last season...
...been eight years since Harry Chen, themanager of Chef Chow's on Church St., left Beijingin large part, he says, "to make a buck." The MSGscare is just one of many ways a racist countryhas conspired-- unsuccessfully, he addspointedly--to undermine Chinese businesses...
...probably tell yourself: we're missing one little thing here. Some rice would be very nice. But beware of price: they charge a dollar per little bowl, never enough for an entree. You'll get your check, you'll see the "rice" listed for a buck, and you'll be as bitter as this next paragraph...
...minimum commission. For example, Kennedy, Cabot & Co. (800-252-0090) -- which is not remotely the old- line Massachusetts firm its name conjures up -- charges just $20 on "odd lot" trades (fewer than 100 shares) and as little as a penny a share commission on stocks selling for under a buck...