Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tazara had dropped from an average 1,150 tons daily in 1977 to 700 tons. Just before the railroad opened, 100,000 tons of Zambian copper were awaiting shipment to world market. Last week another 100,000 tons were still waiting, smelted into thick, yard-long ingots and worth $80 million. Perhaps this helps explain why Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda decided last month to ignore the U.N. boycott and reopen his borders to Rhodesia. The resumption of this transit route should take some strain off the Tazara and allow Zambia and Tanzania to repair and refurbish it. Last week...
...several hours spent at a rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output in bushels and dollars. He draws up precise operating schedules for his half-million dollars' worth of machinery; after all, every gallon of fuel saved adds a few more cents to profit. His print-outs also help him ponder marketing strategy (when should he time the sale of his crops to get the best price?) and financial problems (how can he distribute the stock in his family...
...tons an acre, and a depressed price this year of around $21 a ton, the typical beet grower will receive $315 an acre, producing a thin profit in view of the heavy investment required. But Benedict's mechanization and tight management enable him to grow 20 tons an acre, worth $420, enough to promise a worthwhile return...
...contract to sell 40% of his wheat crop, for a price that he says "will cover costs and a little more," and will store the rest to release whenever he judges market conditions to be right. At current prices, about $3 a bushel, his wheat crop would be worth...
Appearances to the contrary, Upstairs, Downstairs Producer John Hawkes-worth has not settled down in my lady's parlor. True, his new 15-part Masterpiece Theater presentation, a joint venture of the BBC and TIME-LIFE Television, has several things in common with its award-winning and much-beloved predecessor. Chief among these are intelligence and taste. The series is as handsomely produced, the Edwardian settings and costumes as lush and authentic, as any devotee of 165 Eaton Place could possibly wish. But Louisa Leyton, the heroine of The Duchess of Duke Street, would never pass muster with Hudson...