Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened dramatizes Nixon's dilemma: he is by far the leading candidate for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination.* That nomination may be hardly worth having if the Administration fails to sell its record in the political market. But if Nixon jumps out and oversells, he might lose the good will of the only man who could deny him the nomination, Dwight Eisenhower himself...
...companies were herded protectively into company compounds, but it was hard to say what they were being protected from. "Mucha música pero poca ópera," said a grizzled engineer, quoting the old Nicaraguan proverb: Lots of noise but little action. Although most of the $125 million worth of oil installations had been prudently shut down several days before the invasion, one U.S. contracting company, disregarding the war, kept right at work on a road and pipeline linking the oilfields with the seacoast. Caltex announced that, with government permission, it would resume operations this week...
...necessary that the constitutional monarchy be perpetuated through succession to the throne in a direct line of sons from generation to generation." As consolation, ex-Queen Soraya gets a $67,000 settlement, an annual allowance of reportedly $48,000 until she remarries, permanent possession of several million dollars' worth of jewelry bought for her by the Shah, and the honorary title of "Princess" to express the Shah's "appreciation of her sacrifices...
...their determination to find out everything worth knowing about the mysterious mutant A strain of virus, researchers had other flu postscripts...
SOVIET GOLD DIGGERS may lead world production this year. In 1957 Soviets turned out about 38% of world gold supply-17 million 02. worth $595 million-to match the longtime leader, South Africa. Gold hoard gives Soviets potent economic weapon to fight balance-of-trade deficits...