Word: worth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be freed from the shackles of political patronage, parsimonious appropriations and a jungle of congressional rules and regulations that often thwart efficiency. The reorganization would also provide a financial flexibility now sadly lacking by allowing the postal service to float bonds to pay for the estimated $5 billion-worth of plant and equipment improvements needed to achieve modernization...
...daily ration is 2,413 calories, mostly starch-"constant vitamin hunger is an indisputable fact. It is no accident that in the camps so many people suffer from stomach ailments." Food parcels are forbidden, the men said, and even in the kiosks, where they can buy five rubles' worth of goods a month, "buying green vegetables or other produce containing vitamins is impossible. Any one of us at any minute can be deprived of the right to buy anything at the kiosk, or be put in solitary confinement, where the rations may be reduced to 1,300 calories...
...permissiveness has become the My Fair Lady of the Now Generation, and its success is even more striking on records. Hair is the first Broadway musical since Man of La Mancha to win a gold platter -the record industry's reward for selling $1,000,000 worth of disks. RCA Victor's original-cast recording has been the No. 1 album bestseller for seven weeks. Even Atlantic's recording of the London production has sold 60,000 copies...
...this point, welfare administrators finally twigged. Last week Davis was in court, charged with receiving four welfare checks, cashing them, and then falsely telling caseworkers he had never received them so that he could get replacements worth $222. Technically, the charges against Davis are grand and petty larceny, but District Attorney Burton Roberts found Davis' real crime a bit different. "If there were a crime of chutzpah [gall]" he said, "this man would be charged with it in the first degree...
...less than those of its major trading partners. Since the difference is even greater between German and U.S. products, it is hardly surprising that German exports to the U.S. climbed 38% last year. As the world's most successful exporters, the Germans in 1968 sold $25 billion worth of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, plastics and other products to foreign nations. That was far more than any other country except the U.S. With an economy larger than that of all Western Europe, the U.S. had 1968 exports of $33.4 billion...