First, the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it the inflated capital-spending plans of everybody who had been hoping to make a buck off of it.
And if financial services companies want to make a buck off the masses of these female breadwinners, they are going to have to engage with them on a different level.
Once we abandon the bookstore for the virtual world we find that it is a primeval forest, dangerous and uninviting, replete with frauds and scams looking to scrape a quick buck off of unsuspecting readers.
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Technology veteran Edward Kozel has a simple philosophy about a scourge of the Internet--the peer-to-peer networks that let millions of users illegally swap pirated movies, songs and software: If you can't beat 'em, make a buck off 'em.
John Buck led off the 10th with a single against Wall (0-1), and Ike Davis walked on four pitches.
However, when he was caught at short leg by James Taylor off Buck, Leicestershire moved to kill off the home side with 11.2 overs to spare.
Although Worcestershire lost two quick wickets when Matthew Hoggard had Phil Jaques lbw for his second duck of the match and Vikram Solanki was caught at cover off Buck, they recovered to reach the close in a healthy position at 62 - 2.
But a short ball outside off stump from Nathan Buck gave Wilson his opportunity to reach 100 off 207 balls with 13 boundaries.
Buck's entry set off a chain of events that led to his college hiring a lawyer on his behalf.
He struck out nine, but yielded a homer leading off the fourth to John Buck that tied it 2-all.
Buck drove Street's first pitch off the facing of the second deck in left for his second homer of the series, and Street then retired three in a row for his first save.
"We are really worried that we are off the radar now, " Buck said.
It gently unfolds by way of shifting moves and changing lighting into a scene reminiscent of a Buck Rogers world, with its sharpest element taking off as if rocket propelled.
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Buck launched a drive to left-center leading off the second, giving him 22 RBIs in his first three weeks with the Mets after arriving in the trade that sent NL Cy Young Award winner R.
John Buck coaxed a 12-pitch walk on a full count, fouling off six pitches after the count was 2-2.
But Buck ran the Mets out of the inning when he was easily doubled off second on Ruben Tejada's liner to center.
Murphy, who had three hits for his second straight game, hit a soft line drive to center field that hit off Upton's glove as he came in on it and Buck scored.
However, this past offseason, the Marlins and Blue Jays pulled off a blockbuster trade, sending shortstop Jose Reyes, catcher John Buck, outfielder Emilio Bonifacio and pitchers Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson from Miami to Toronto.
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This enables you to shift your focus from individual transactions and simply making a buck in the short term to building trust and establishing lifetime relationships that will undoubtedly pay off.
Jeurys Familia allowed another run in the eighth when pinch-hitter Chris Denorfia walked leading off, Alonso singled him to third and Familia bounced a slider over the glove of Buck, who tried for a backhand grab.
"I don't think he was off, they just took advantage of bleeders and one big hit, " Mets catcher John Buck said.
According to Off-Ramps and On-Ramps, a Harvard Business Review article by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, large numbers of highly qualified women are dropping out of mainstream careers.
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