Word: worth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than an expert in foreign affairs. Despite its size (circ. 505,000) and wealth, his Philadelphia Inquirer does not employ a single foreign correspondent. But he did offer at least to redecorate the embassy residence. Judging from his homes in suburban Philadelphia and Palm Springs, that alone should be worth the price of his admission to the post...
Trousered girls with candles, and boys in caps and unbuttoned raincoats, cigarettes between their teeth (there must be many faces in the picture, primitive, cheeky faces, with their ruble's worth of self-assurance and five kopecks' worth of understanding-though some are trusting, simple-mouthed) crowd around and watch a performance that no one can buy tickets to see. Following the lantern come two banner bearers. They, too, as though afraid, huddle together...
...keeping the two countries apart. How would the spread be resolved, he was asked, between the $120 million that the IPC is asking for its expropriated properties and the $54 million that Peru up to now has been prepared to pay? "Courtappointed appraisers will decide what the property is worth." Was the $690 million that Peru insists it is owed by IPC subject to modification? "Yes, naturally. We are not acting willy-nilly." With that, the two sides retired for private discussions to defuse the crisis...
Foreman is a man of bewildering contradictions. His personal charm, when he cares to exercise it, is overwhelming; yet he has been known to snarl at dilatory waitresses: "I get $200 an hour, and you have taken up $60 worth." In the courtroom, he would almost literally die for his clients; during conferences in their cells, he often cusses them up one side and down the other. With the well-heeled, he is merciless about fees. They must be paid in either cash or property (he owns numerous cars and houses turned over to him in fee settlements). However...
...that the Chase Manhattan Bank controlled 1,500,000 more shares of Pan Am. He invited a number of Chase officers down to the Bahamas to inspect his Paradise Island complex of hotels and a gambling ca sino. The bankers thereupon agreed to sell their Pan Am stock, then worth about $39 million, for a complex pack age of Resorts' notes and warrants...