Word: bucks
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...scrambled, but couldn't find anyone else to teach the course," said Peter Buck, director of the summer school...
...indictment describes him, Dixon embodied the high-rolling style of oil-patch opportunists. In the early 1980s Congress wrongheadedly tried to help struggling thrifts earn higher returns by liberating them to invest in virtually anything they wanted. Crafty entrepreneurs began building the S&Ls into fast-buck enterprises by sinking money into marinas, golf courses and even uranium mines...
...sympathy. A grand jury may explore further links to Reagan and George Bush, and Poindexter could be called to testify with a grant of immunity. People who know the admiral well are convinced that the effort will come to naught, that history will have to judge Reagan -- where the buck really stops -- on the fuzzy story before us. "John Poindexter was made a flag officer in the U.S. Navy for the express reason that he would not break in a crisis," says retired Admiral Clarence Hill Jr., a friend and manager of Poindexter's legal fund...
...organ transplants. "We have to let some babies die, some old people die," says Dr. John West, a trauma-care expert at the University of California at Irvine. "We have to look at the quality of life, and we have to look at the return on our health-care buck. You just can't keep everyone alive forever...
...concentrated in English during his undergraduate years, called the mathematics department "a vibrant place" in remarks at the dinner and said that he was making the gift because "mathematics is the key to understanding science, [and] compared to many scientific projects, in mathematics you get more bang for the buck...