20 miles per gallon that's a buck 50, a buck 60 a gallon.

I'm tracking a buck.

The Buck Stops at the Top

They want Buck Rogers, they don't want effective.

You can get more bang for your buck, let's say.

That was eight bucks last week, four bucks this week, a buck next week.

It thinks in terms of how much bang do we get for our buck.

Koh Buck Song (ed. Heart Work Stories of How EDB Steered the Singapore Economy from 1961 into the 21st Century, Singapore EDB.

LONDON Politicians are masters at passing the buck. Everything good that happens reflects their exceptional talents and efforts everything bad is caused by someone or something else.

The result is a startlingly clear look at what is going on in a circle of people who defers to whom, who takes charge, who passes the buck.

And a man told me, who ran the Pearl Buck Foundation in Korea, that there was a young girl, who was 11 years old, being raised by her grandmother.

Filmmakers, friends of mine, they look at Nollywood and they say, Wow, they are doing what we really want to do, and make a buck and live with this job.

So, this is very encouraging, it suggests that something that we might want to do anyhow, if we had enough money, could actually give us a much bigger bang for the buck.

Take that same good, and perform the service of actually brewing it for a customer, in a corner diner, in a bodega, a kiosk somewhere, you get 50 cents, maybe a buck per cup of coffee.

And that brought back to me the stable I worked on weekends when I was 12, and a splendid piebald stallion, who whenever he was mounted would buck just like that, though more hugely of course, enormous, gleaming, resplendent.

For starters, they could make a mid summer resolution to buck the trend. They might, for example, resist the Internet algorithm that suggests which book to buy or film to rent, based on what they read or watched previously.

In the course of doing the story, I was looking for children who hadn't been photographed before, and the Pearl Buck Foundation told me that they worked with a lot of Americans who were donating money to help some of these kids.

That s not a lot of bang for the buck. Indeed, the projected costs of this approach some 5 trillion annually by mid century are so much greater than its likely benefits that it makes no sense to call it a solution at all.

The biggest bang for the reform buck would be obtained from increasing the profitability of tradables spurring investment and entrepreneurship in export activities, both existing and new. Of course, Greece lacks the most direct instrument for achieving this currency depreciation owing to its eurozone membership.

But perhaps there is a deeper level on which we can see some connections between Thatcherism and the crisis. Her mantra, You can t buck the market, did contribute to a mindset that led governments and central banks to be reluctant to question unsustainable market trends.

The designation furthered the protection of the Virgin Islands National Park created in 1956 and expanded in 1962.62 The Monument covers 12,000 acres off St. John and also increases Buck Island Reef National Monument off St. Croix from 900 acres to some 18,000 acres.

The Federal government has assumed trillions of dollars of liabilities and risks. In rescuing the financial system, no less than in fiscal policy, we need to worry about the bang for the buck. Otherwise, the deficit which has doubled in eight years will soar even more.

And all I'm saying is that we need to figure out how they'll evolve, so that we need to adjust our interventions to get the most bang for the intervention buck, so that we can get these organisms to evolve in the direction we want them to go.

But Hirschman also would no doubt chide developing country governments for not living up to their responsibilities and for passing on the buck so freely to these external agencies. For, ultimately, it is up to each country to say, Thanks, but no, thanks we ll do it our way.

Yet a critical moment in the crisis came when, shortly after the mid September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, a money market fund broke the buck and couldn t pay 100 cents on the dollar. Of course, it was bailed out along with all the other money market funds.

While a handful of commodity rich countries have managed to buck the curse, including Botswana, Chile, and Norway, they have, nevertheless, failed to diversify their economies, remaining dependent on natural resource based exports. But history is not destined to repeat itself, and leaders of commodity rich countries are seeking alternative futures.

One can also argue for PSR on the grounds that asking for CSR becomes a way of passing the buck evading personal responsibility for doing good. This is the flip side of blaming corporations for everything from obesity to scalding from spilled coffee both the subject of lawsuits in recent years.

Moreover, money spent on the Iraq war does not stimulate the economy today as much as money spent at home on roads, hospitals, or schools, and it doesn t contribute as much to long term growth. Economists talk about bang for the buck how much economic stimulus is provided by each dollar of spending.

But as we tried these extraordinary things, as people went to this trouble to try and rework their tactics, we went back to the vaccine it's a 50 year old vaccine and we thought, surely we can make a better vaccine, so that when they finally get to these kids, we can have a better bang for our buck.

Fortunately, the EU has a real partner in Ukraine, whose people s devotion to Europe has been tested by snipers in the streets of Kyiv and now by the Russian army. Their courage, and their newfound political activism, has stiffened the government s backbone in implementing needed reforms and made it impossible for any political actor in Ukraine to buck the pro EU consensus.

Unable to overcome popular distrust, owing to its longstanding symbiosis with the bureaucrats and subservience to the US, the LDP has been incapable of holding the DPJ accountable in the legislature. Instead, the LDP, having failed to reinvigorate itself and attract allies, has occasionally taken a buck passing approach, such as permitting the DPJ to pass an unpopular but inevitable and necessary increase in the consumption tax.

If we know that we're going to get extra bang for the buck from providing clean water, then I think that we can say, let's push the effort into that aspect of the control, so that we can actually solve the problem, even though, if you just look at the frequency of infection, you would suggest that you can't solve the problem well enough just by cleaning up water supply.

What Europe is trying to do in Portugal and Greece is reminiscent of central banks futile efforts in past decades to keep exchange rates away from the market equilibrium price level. Some central banks, such as the Bank of England in its unsuccessful fight against George Soros in 1992, got burned when it became clear how much money was required to buck the market, the policy was abandoned.

All abnormal behavior may not be bad, says Charnock, but virtually all really bad behavior is abnormal. From years of analyzing the abnormal, I ve developed a keen appreciation for the myriad peccadilloes that are quite normal the dull co worker whom others scheme to avoid, the eleventh hour passing of the buck, the ex you promised to stay friends with but never wrote to again, the small but telling things that really get under your skin.