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It's corporate "synergy" at its ugliest: Only a sap gives away an honest opinion when there's a buck to be made passing someone on to a corporate partner.
Linda Harvey, a partner with Newark's Greenberg, Dauber, Epstein & Tucker, who represents LSNJ and Miller, calls Passaic Legal Aid "a renegade…that is asking the court to buck the national trend and the wishes of Congress."
Like all good Republicans, Steinbrenner's Yanks buck regulation: When other owners tried to stop Steinbrenner from signing a separate endorsement deal with Adidas, arguing it would undercut the entire league's endorsement plan, he told them to get lost.
One might regard it as a popular combination of Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages (1949 and 1988) and A Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), both University of Chicago Press, with something of Edward Pinkerton's Word for Word , Verbatim Books (1982), and my Suffixes and Word-Final Elements of English (1982) and Prefixes and Word-Initial Elements of English (1984), both Gale Research, thrown in.
It makes you wonder whether your emotions are really yours or whether they are really Irving Berlin's set down with music to make a buck.