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...should we care? Because if the buck falls out of bed, there's trouble ahead. Consumers will have to pay more for imports, which can light a fire under inflation. Imports make up more than 17% of all consumer goods bought in the U.S., or $407 billion, up from only 5.4%, or $19.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worried About the Dollar | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck conventional wisdom and open an online store this fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales From The E-Commerce Front | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson can stop Gould and an aggressive Bulldog attack they may well buck tradition and send the Elis home with yet another disheartening defeat...

Author: By Eli Ewing and Richard A. Perez, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: M., W. Soccer Hit the Road, Take on Elis | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...Everyone passes the buck," Tan says...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Studies | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately, I also tend to poach the bills out of her piggy bank late at night to pay the baby sitter or the pizza guy. (One night I even dipped into her petty cash to slip a buck under her pillow from the tooth fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piggy-Bank Blues | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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