Driven to a deal Last year we predicted that Volvo would buck the auto world's recent merger trend and remain independent (Aug. 10, 1998).

FORBES: Follow Through

When economists and politicians say that you can't buck or control the world's financial markets, just think of John Wayne and a herd of stampeding cattle.

BBC: The currency stampede

Do not confuse this with the seriously inconvenient condition known to the world as buck teeth (without which we would have no orthodontists, and no mortified adolescents with mouthfuls of rubber bands and wire braces).

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

I'm hoping to buck people up a bit around the world.

FORBES: Nobel Gestures

In my professional world, the buck stops with me.

FORBES: Apologies and Responsibility Help Family, Business and Politics

And developing basic low-cost pollution technology for coal-fired power generation in the third world would probably get more bang for the pollution buck than just about anything else.

FORBES: Connect

Thanks partly to the diversity of its business, Citigroup, the world's largest financial-services group, has so far managed to buck the tide.

ECONOMIST: Through gritted teeth | The

Investors' biggest worry is that a rise in American rates will withdraw a crucial support from the many markets around the world that had risen vertiginously, helped up by the many who had wanted more bang for their buck than could be gained from popping it in the bank.

ECONOMIST: Financial markets

On a good day, you'd come home with a buck and a half -- two bucks or more if the World Series was on or Lindbergh was flying.

CNN: Excerpt: 'Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life'

Our cover story profiles a wealthy Dutch woman whose vision of fine art led her to buck the prevailing taste of her time and amass one of the world's finest collections of Van Gogh.

FORBES: Editor's Note