Word: bucks
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This apparent contradiction may reflect the fact that women will instinctively offer an official let's-buck-it-up line even if, with more prodding, they are prepared to paint a gloomier anecdotal picture of their office life. What is clear, however, is that Swiss and Walker were cured of one presumption -- that change always comes from the top down. "We thought that if we surveyed the best-credentialed women in the country, we would uncover creative solutions to balancing work and family," says Swiss. ! "Instead, what we found was incredible anger and frustration about the difficulty of being...
While a normal politician's instinct, as disaster burns around them, is to run for cover, Reno drew herself up tall, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, and went on national television to say, The buck stops with me, I take full responsibility, it was my decision, I approved the plans, until journalists and pundits and pols were breathless at the audacity of it, an act of political self-immolation. She was everywhere on the evening news and the talk shows, declaring that after hard thought she had reached the best judgment she could and that "based on what we know...
Gator and his friends apparently had a grudge against one of Robinson's friends. They drove to Dartmouth High School armed with a pipe, a buck knife and a baseball bat, intending to settle a score. But as they burst into the first period class in this sleepy southern Massachusetts town, they didn't find who they were looking for. Instead they were asked by Jason Robinson what they wanted with his friend. The only answer he received was several quick knife thrusts to the abdomen...
...would hate to think that we're doing anything different because Mr. Steinbrenner is back. But, Mr. Steinbrenner has a way of putting a little extra hop in everybody's step."--New York Yankees manager Buck Showalter...
...carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...