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...bottom is Top-Flite, for years proud makers of the rock-hardest projectile off the tee (it's the distance, stupid!) and purveyors of double-dozen packs for less than a double sawbuck. Its last innovation occurred in the hickory age. Top-Flite's balls had come to deserve their "Rock-Flite" and "ammunition" monikers. But since Callaway bought the company from Spalding in 2003, Top-Flite has been on a technology tear, launching two new balls in two years and attempting to reposition itself as a rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golf Game: Top-Flite Gets Macho | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...Customers of the new company, dubbed Citigroup, will be able to shuffle money instantly between banking, money market, insurance and mutual fund accounts. And even get out a sawbuck for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Citigroup: One-Stop Shopping | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...They played out of the back like we play out of the back, and it works," explained Coach jape sawbuck of the Green's a tack. The momentum of the match began to able he added, when senior tailback Leighton watch maenad swathing to man-to-men marking an defense...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Boosters Swamp Green, 2-0 In Second Straight Win | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...they contained acorns, his eyes are little and mean. Walter Matthau, for it is he, allows these seedy features to slump into a look of distaste that is almost Fieldsian and says in a voice like that of a gear-grinding machine, "Put him down for a sawbuck, and don't let the kid out of your sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mark IV | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...faces. "Come on, come on, your two dollars to my ten, and I'll spot you four balls. Hey?" The answer here and elsewhere in the North End is, no, thanks, because you are a bigger man. You can get a favor done, you don't need his double sawbuck. May-be he needs your two? No, he doesn't need your two, forget...

Author: By John D. Reed and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: THE NORTH END | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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