But 14 bucks should buy a bit more than that.

Ten bucks to make and the soldier boys buy 'em for three, mebbe four hundred.

Even if she hoarded it, nine hundred bucks doesn't buy you much.

If it's an ordinary citizen, on the other hand, five hundred bucks could buy a few minutes of silence.

"Thirteen bucks won't buy a gun," she informed me with faint cynicism.

But fifty bucks buys a lot of attention in the barrio.

Twenty bucks can buy a good two or three minutes of a Washington lawyer's time.

Don't: Assume that spending big bucks will buy you better skin.

But enough bucks could buy a new face, a new identity, anything.