Moreover, even if China succeeds in matching America's distant triumph, it still faces the question, "what next?" The chances are that the Chinese government, like Richard Nixon's in 1972, will say "job done" and pull the plug on the whole shebang.No bucks, no Buck RogersWith luck, robotic exploration of the solar system will continue.
Then he wisely attached himself to the slumping Fast/Furious franchise, a move that paid off earlier this year when the latest instalment coolly pounded a billion bucks out of the global box office.
Shoppers at the national chain of Costco stores who shelled out extra bucks for the lavish Ultimate Toy Box set were alarmed to find that their copies contained scenes that didn't quite fit with the Pixel universe.
The local building style is thatched, single-storey fishermen's and farmers' huts-turned-holiday-houses for the smart Lisbon set, so this villa bucks the trend – quite beautifully.
On the other side of the equation are the content providers – the HBOs of the world – who charge the cable companies big bucks for the right to broadcast that content.
I started in Germany, where a team of ignored inventors, in a blithe attempt to make a few thousand bucks from a struggling business venture, had accidentally crippled a global industry.
We need to make a mail server for people that costs five bucks and sits on the kitchen counter where the telephone answering machine used to be.
His boat bucks along the windy loch and, in the dark woodland beyond our vision, an eagle's eye is caught by the gathering gulls.
But that bucks the trend.Decentralisation happened to coincide with an economic boom.
The big difference came when conditions were tough (eg, if school attendance was mandatory): that boosted enrolment by 60%, a big bang for the relatively few bucks involved.Imposing conditions does have a cost.
That bucks a national trend.
