The hedge fund manager who continues to buck the trend is David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management.

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Daniel Murphy hit an RBI triple, David Wright singled home a run and Buck had a sacrifice fly.

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But then so is David Malpass, who takes a dimmer view of the buck and the economy.

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Generals have always been the rock stars of the military (my favorite one is fictional: General Buck Turgidson from Dr. Strangelove), and David Petraeus is no exception.

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And James is aggressive: When the new David Bowie single was released, she didn't wait for a handout but paid the buck to download it from iTunes.

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The Mets had gone 4-8 over their previous 12 games and were hitting .202 with runners in scoring position over that span, but John Buck, the NL RBI leader, had not disappointed, and the same was true of David Wright and Lucas Duda.

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David Wright struck out but Duda punched a ground-rule double to left for his third hit, and John Buck's run-scoring single tied it at 2.

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