Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says producer Papp, "that I can hardly believe it won't be done here in some way." Already Equity and Mackintosh are making murmurs toward compromise. Miss Saigon is scheduled to open April 11. Before then, the warring sides will probably find a way to make nice, make a buck and save face...
Seeking a major project that would involve manned flight and thus more easily elicit the support of Congress ("No bucks without Buck Rogers," quip congressional aides), the agency opted for the Space Transportation System, the shuttle program. Lobbying the White House, the Defense Department and Congress intensively, NASA portrayed the shuttle as all things to all people. The winged craft would be reusable and thus economical, a safe, reliable space truck with many different roles. In as many as 60 flights a year, it would loft or capture satellites and patrol the skies for the military. Furthermore, NASA assured...
...might not think Jewett the sort who would buck tradition. But lately, he has done just that, spearheading efforts to change Harvard's annual housing lottery to make the system more random. Last year, he raised cries for blood among first-year students by pushing through a system of "nonordered choice" in which rising sophomores are randomly assigned to one of the four upperclass Houses they select on their housing form...
...wait, wasn't the Susan B. Anthony dollar such a flop that it is no longer minted? Sure, concedes Domenici, but that was because people confused it with a quarter. His buck will be gold-colored, not silver. Says Domenici, whose proposal has 28 Senate co-sponsors: "Susan B. Anthony need not hold us hostage forever...
...Buck agreed that the course's omission was unfortunate, but added, "It's better to give up a women's studies course during the summer than to give up an Afro-American Studies course during the year...