Word: bucks
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...asking: Who thinks this stuff up? Answer: showmen who will do anything for a scream or a giggle. (Yuen also loves the comic possibilities of physical blemishes, like warts and buck teeth.) But Yuen is only observing the cardinal rule in Hong Kong: these are moving pictures. And an action choreographer is bound to keep the action coming, at whatever cost to logic or taste...
...lights were trained on Jack Quinn--closer to Gore than to Clinton--and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who was accused by the committee of passing on the Rich pardon in hopes of landing the top spot at Justice in a Gore Administration. As usual, the buck doesn't stop at Clinton...
...Likud Party's candidate, sat directly in front of the television. When the newscasters announced his landslide win, the suite erupted in cheers as Sharon's people pumped the air with their fists. Only Sharon sat quietly, motionless and hunched. After his maverick, wilderness years as an outsider, the buck now stopped, dauntingly, with him. Prime Minister Ehud Barak phoned to concede. "Ehud, I want to tell you that I admire the way you fought with tenacity, like a good soldier," Sharon said. "We have great things to do and can only do them together." It was an overt appeal...
...fend off similar legislation here, U.S. manufacturers are scrambling to devise recycling programs of their own--and hoping to make a buck while they're at it. Last November, IBM launched the first nationwide program; it charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...
When seers forecast the future literally instead of metaphysically, they usually miss by light-years. The Buck Rogers comic strip of the 1950s attempted to depict life in the 25th century. But even before the end of the 20th century, Buck's spaceship looked more like a 1956 Cadillac than any realistic vision of a technological tomorrow that is already with us. Nor can the exactitude of modern science save us from silliness in attempting to know what will happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally...