Word: worth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match is slow and too-obviously staged, or if the pin comes too soon and the action isn't humiliating enough, the crowd registers its disapproval. They boo. The Garden fans become very annoyed if they don't get their money's worth of entertaniment...
...Dollar Theater " sounds attractive in theory, but as Senator Stephen Young of Ohio sometimes replies to letters from constituents, "I realize your opinion cost nothing, but that's exactly what it's worth...
...Saturday lawyers try to retaliate against those who take advantage of others' ignorance to make their own living. In a typical case, an illiterate woman came to Legal Aid because she had been tricked into putting up the deed to her home as security for $700 worth of household repairs. After the repairs were completed, a loan company claimed that with interest and other charges she actually owed $1,900. When the company threatened to take over her home, Bill Ide, one of the Legal Aid volunteers, promptly filed suit for his client. Charging contractor and loan company with...
...Charney and Publisher John J. Veronis lavished more than enough on production costs and advertising. Although it had promised more, the magazine never developed into much more than a job hunter's guide on slick paper. Subscribers were so few that they cost more than they were worth. Last week, after four issues, Careers Today folded. Its demise was not, of course, the end of Charney and Veronis (TIME, Feb. 14), who will continue to publish the successful Psychology Today...
...Those who are engineering the present wave of takeovers," he said, "appear to find short-term profits so tempting that they ignore long-term risks." Later, Robert W. Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, told another House subcommittee that he is becoming "increasingly concerned" about the real worth of debt securities that are being offered to the public in corporate takeover deals. Next day in Atlanta, Haack told a reporter that two companies have gone to such extremes in this direction that the Exchange may even delist them. And at week's end, the chief Justice