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  Check here for the latest updates at the Buck!
The Buck has always taken great pride in providing the best motorsports entertainment at affordable family prices.
A trip to the Buck is more than just the action on the track.
A visit to the Buck is all this and more, it's entertainment and excitement for the whole family!
www.buckmotorsports.com   (295 words)

  
  Buck (poker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the card game Poker, the buck or button is a marker used to indicate the player who is the dealer or, in casino games with a house dealer, the player who acts last on that deal (who would be the dealer in a home game).
A knife was a common object used as such a marker, and the marker became generally known as a buck as an abbreviated reference to the buck's horn that formed the handle of many knives at that time.
US president Harry S. Truman's use of the slogan "the buck stops here" in speeches, and on a sign on his desk, derives from the adoption of the phrase "passing the buck" as a metaphor for avoiding responsibility.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buck_(poker)   (375 words)

  
 Buck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tyrannosaurus rex (this use of the term buck for a male Tyrannosaurus rex was first used in the Jurassic Park series and is currently gaining popularity)
A buck converter is a type of electronics power supply.
Buck Rogers is a science fiction hero from the 1930s and 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buck   (252 words)

  
 MLB.com: Jack Buck, 1924-2002
Jack Buck was widely admired by his colleagues in the world of broadcasting and by the players whose feats he recounted for fans around the world.
Buck, one of the most respected and admired baseball broadcasters, was the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly a half a century.
Jack Buck touched thousands of lives, usually through the impersonal medium of the air waves, but his death produced a profoundly personal reaction Wednesday, as the baseball world mourned the passing of one of the sport's most beloved personalities.
mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/tributes/mlb_obit_jack_buck.jsp   (563 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Baseball - Legendary broadcaster Jack Buck dead at 77 - Wednesday June 19, 2002 07:10 PM
On May 16, Buck underwent another operation to eradicate a series of recurring infections, including pneumonia, and was placed on dialysis.
Buck was also behind the microphone for the first telecast of the American Football League and at the NFL championship "Ice Bowl" in 1967.
Buck, who had six children with his first wife Alyce, and two with wife Carole, is survived by his second wife; sons Jack Jr., Dan and Joe; and daughters Beverly, Christine, Bonnie, Betsy and Julie.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/news/2002/06/18/buck_obit_ap   (1076 words)

  
 Joe Buck Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1994, Buck was hired by Fox, and at the age of 25 became the youngest man ever to announce a regular slate of National Football League games on network television.
Buck is only the third announcer to handle a television network's lead MLB and NFL coverage in the same year (following NBC's Curt Gowdy and ABC's Al Michaels).
Whenever Joe Buck has been on a postseason Major League Baseball assignment, Dick Stockton, who coincidentally was the back-up announcer behind Jack Buck for CBS' baseball telecasts in the early 1990s, would fill-in for him.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Joe_Buck   (795 words)

  
 Buck's War
Buck did his basic training at Camp Stewart, Georgia in the heat and humidy of July and quickly discovered that adventures were not all they are cracked up to be.
Buck told me on his first night patrol the squad was in Belgium in a coal yard filled with large piles of coal.
Buck saw the liberation of about 2,500 near-starved political prisoners at the concentration camp KZ-Wöbbelin and watched as the people of the town were forced to walk through the camp and bear witness.
members.aeroinc.net /breners/buckswar   (4007 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Pearl S. Buck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1938, Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, an honor that was welcomed by her millions of readers, but was greeted with derision by a good many critics.
In the postwar years, Buck was increasingly troubled by the plight of mixed-race children, born to Asian women as the result of sexual relationships with American servicemen stationed across the Pacific.
These Amerasian children (Buck coined the term) were victims of discrimination in their several Asian homelands, and were also considered “unadoptable” in the United States.
www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=629   (1685 words)

  
 IGN: Buck Bumble Review
Buck himself is cute and well-designed (though not on the same level as Rare's buzzer), and, once a new weapon is put into use, the bee reflects that.
Buck Bumble is a fun Nintendo 64 title that lacks the technical flair of today's current crop.
Buck Bumble is not quite the killer bee shoot'em-up I was hoping for, but it's still a pretty fun game.
ign64.ign.com /articles/152/152304p1.html   (1354 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Victor de Buck
This too was false, as Father De Buck had never intimated that the placing of the vial of blood did not indicate the resting-place of a martyr, when it could be proved that the vial contained genuine blood, such as was supposed by the decree of the congregation.
It was filled with caustic criticisms of the author of "De phialis rubricatis" and relegated him to the rank of notorious heretics who had combated devotion to the saints and the veneration of their relics.
Although Father De Buck had an unusually robust constitution and enjoyed exceptionally good health, constant and excessive work at length told upon him and he was greatly fatigued when Father Beckx, Father General of the Society, summoned him to Rome to act as official theologian at the Vatican Council.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03026a.htm   (963 words)

  
 Buck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Buck, R., Baron, R., Goodman, N., and Shapiro, B. The unitization of spontaneous nonverbal behavior in the study of emotion communication.
Buck, R., Chaudhuri, A., Georgson, M., and Kowta, S. Conceptualizing and operationalizing affect, reason, and involvement in persuasion: The ARI Model and the CASC Scale.
Buck, R., Chaudhuri, A., Georgson, M., and Kowta, S. Conceptualizing and operationalizing the role of affect, reason, and involvement in persuasion: The ARI model and the CASC scale.
wattlab.coms.uconn.edu /docs/people/faculty/rbuck   (4868 words)

  
 Profile
Buck LB, The molecular architecture of odor and pheromone sensing in mammals, Cell, 100(6), 611-8, March 2000
Berghard A, Buck LB, Sensory transduction in vomeronasal neurons: evidence for G alpha o, G alpha i2, and adenylyl cyclase II as major components of a pheromone signaling cascade, The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience.
Buck LB, Yuan D, Vitetta ES, A dichotomy between the expression of IgD on B cells and its requirement for triggering such cells with two T-independent antigens, 149(4), 987-92, April 1979
myprofile.cos.com /lbuck   (1320 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Peony: Books: Pearl S. Buck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Buck's amazing ability to create depth of character is in strong evidence in "Peony," and all of the characters are extremely well developed and realistic.
Buck doesn't need to resort to hyperbole to get her point across - the words are carefully chosen and the story is beautifully constructed.
The language Pearl Buck uses is clever; in the Good Earth she keeps the language simple, to catch the thought patterns of the peasant farmers.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0819705934?v=glance   (1873 words)

  
 Buck (Sweden) - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Buck blasts out of Sweden with raw, ragged, emotional rock that mixes Chapel Hill's finest lo-fi college rock with oh-so-sincere Midwestern power pop.
Buck also slows things down from time to time, opting for the occasional quiet instrumental interlude or raspy, world-weary ballad.
Singer/guitarist Ted Fransson and drummer Richard Blank founded Buck in the southwestern Swedish town of Arlingsandaring;s in 1997 after parting ways with their old punk band.
www.epitonic.com /artists/bucksweden.html   (251 words)

  
 North Soundings Online | Summer 2002 | Buck Harrigan — A Bitter End Legend
A member of the local choir, Buck does not hesitate to grab the mic, informing his guests of the details of the day’s trip, his speech peppered with jokes, song and local banter.
Buck does not simply drive you to your destination, he will strip down to his swim trunks and get right in there, guiding you to some of the best spots and teaching you all there is to know about the local coral and fish population.
Buck is an accomplished synchronized swimmer, demonstrating an artistic flair that Sylvie Frechette would be proud of.
www.northsoundings.com /nso_02_2_pages/nso_02_2_36_buck_harrigan.html   (526 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Mother: Books: Pearl S. Buck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Buck takes an in-depth look into the life of a peasant woman who lives in a poor hamlet at the dawn of the communist era - when ancient and modern Chinese ideals collided.
Buck's gift for storytelling is once again in evidence in "The Mother," and her elegant writing style evokes vivid imagery.
Buck created here - the tragically blind daughter, the grandmother who wears her own shroud in anticipation of death, and especially the mother - are exquisitely drawn and memorable.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559210915?v=glance   (2041 words)

  
 Brief Biography of Pearl S. Buck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Bucks' first child, Carol, was born in 1921; a victim of PKU, she proved to be profoundly retarded.
The tragedies and dislocations which Pearl suffered in the 1920s reached a climax in March, 1927, in the violence known as the "Nanking Incident." In a confused battle involving elements of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, Communist forces, and assorted warlords, several Westerners were murdered.
The Bucks spent a terrified day in hiding, after which they were rescued by American gunboats.
www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/Buck/biography.html   (833 words)

  
 buck
bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.
He was bucking the odds when he bought that failing business.
He bucked the letter on to the assistant vice president to answer.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/buck   (393 words)

  
 Buck Knives hunting fishing camping survival pocket folding knife equipment
Buck Knives hunting fishing camping survival pocket folding knife equipment
Buck Knives-since 1902 famous manufacturer of pocket, folding & fixed blade knives & multi-use equipment for sports, work, utility and outdoor recreation-hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, backpacking, climbing, survival/tactical, diving/boating.
Home : About Buck : Gift Selector : Custom Knife Shoppe
www.buckknives.com   (70 words)

  
 Buck Knives warranty hunting fishing camping hiking pocket folding knife
All Buck Knives are warranted for the lifetime of the original purchaser against breakage or malfunction caused by defects in materials or workmanship.
Buck Knives will repair or replace any defective Buck knife with the same or comparable model (please see “What is Covered” below).
Note: if it is important for you to receive your old knife back in the event of replacement, please include a note to that effect and include your phone number and/or e-mail address.
www.buckknives.com /warranty.php   (619 words)

  
 Truman: The Buck Stops Here
The sign "The Buck Stops Here" that was on President Truman's desk in his White House office was made in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma.
The saying "the buck stops here" derives from the slang expression "pass the buck" which means passing the responsibility on to someone else.
The latter expression is said to have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal.
www.trumanlibrary.org /buckstop.htm   (324 words)

  
 BUCK ROGERS in the 25th Century
Buck awakens from his deep cryogenic sleep to find himself 500 years in the future.
Due to his incredible fighter pilot skills Buck becomes a valuable member of the Earth's Defense Directorate, which is headed by Dr. Elias Huer.
Buck Rogers is likely the most humorous drama science fiction television series ever created.
www.scifi2k.com /buck_rogers/buckrogers.html   (538 words)

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