Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animals at least 48 hours before slaughtering.) Manufacturers agreed to stop selling stilbestrol to caponette raisers, and the farmers agreed to stop using stuff they will no ' longer be able to get. The Department of Agriculture was stuck with the job of buying up $10 million worth of caponettes already on the market...
...information. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the show is minimized by a careless arrangement that breaks up obvious sets, such as Adam and Eve, and ignores considerations of size and color. But what remains the most regrettable artistic defect of this exhibit is the burial of some works of artistic worth in a mass of readily salable trivia...
...just described, which shows input-output relations in current money values is only the first step of Leonteif's analysis. The second step is to "invert the matrix," producing a table of coefficients that shows the amounts of every other product required to bring into existance a dollar's worth of any given product...
...pleaded in his final report for a sweeping adoption of the three year degree "to save the College," Lowell, in his inaugural address on Oct. 6, 1909, declared, "The most vital measure for saving the College is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving." And from then on, the three year degree was doomed...
Others have prospered along with Lee, and the Hong Kong garment industry to day has estimated assets worth $200 million. Exports to the U.S. (chiefly brassières, nightgowns, pajamas, blouses and men's slacks and shirts) are expected to be more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...