Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widows and the aged, services for the physically handicapped (there are some 15,000 amputees), repair of schools, and other "creative, productive projects," that will lessen Korean dependency on outside relief. The foundation plans to work through voluntary agencies already in the field, which have distributed $15.5 million worth of clothing, medical and other supplies. When present relief and reconstruction problems have been met, the foundation hopes to set up a long-range economic and cultural program in the interests of American-Korean friendship and understanding...
...spawned some 65 little communities within the city, each more interested in its neighborhood problems than in the honest but dull processes of the City Hall. Economic philosophy changed too. In 1949, Bowron and the City Council were cheered as they contracted for federal money to build $110 million worth of low-cost public housing. Then Los Angeles seemed to lose interest in public housing...
...reverse his stand on the housing contracts. No great public-housing enthusiast, Republican Bowron stubbornly refused, because he believed in the sanctity of contract. (He was subsequently upheld by the state supreme court.) "When I became mayor," Bowron said recently, "it was a measure of a mayor's worth to get federal money. So I got it, and what happens? I'm a socialist villain...
...last week, when the people of the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia went to the polls to decide on federation, the blacks had little or nothing to say about it. The voting qualification was the possession of assets worth $1,400 or an income of not less than $700 a year; only 429 Negroes qualified. Among 40,000 whites who did, 25,500 favored federation. Mau Mauism to the north and Malanism to the south-unhappy extremes
...editorial of this series suggested continued compulsory attendance as the basis for tutorial revisions. Not the compulsion is a favored academic tool, but no matter how successful the revisions might be, only regular participation in the program will convince the reluctant student of tutorial's value. Since tutorial is worth having at Harvard, two basic improvements follow: There must be some spur to prepare the assignments and attend the sessions, and there must be some incentive to take an active part in the proceedings...