Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million, 18-seat Grumman Gulfstream executive jet crammed with the latest airborne electronics. In between are the twins, turboprops and smaller jets operated by some 2,200 air-taxi operators and 200 commuter airlines. This year alone, companies such as Cessna, Beech and Piper will deliver 18,000 aircraft worth $1.8 billion to customers around the country...
...museum officials said yesterday plans for $12.7 million worth of renovation and expansion of the museum are also in a fog. No one is saying exactly what will remain when the mist clears, but changes have been made in the design for the new facilities...
...genius of Western society is precisely its emphasis on the worth of the individual, on human freedom, and on the worth of individual thought," Ferrick said...
...high-pressure valve that costs $5,000. But some thieves with business savvy have been known to make really big money. In July, Houston's special "fence detail" arrested a middle-aged veteran salesman with a major drilling-equipment manufacturer and confiscated $580,000 worth of stolen hardware. Police say the man apparently purloined the equipment from his employer and then, through a dummy rental outfit that he set up, leased it to a legitimate rental company. His take, according to police: about $150,000 every three months...
That philosophy seems to sit well with advertisers. The first issue contains 56 advertising pages worth $848,568, a record amount for any magazine's debut. LIFE'S 10?-in. by 13?-in. page size inspired a few agencies to craft ads that are so visually stunning they could pass for the magazine's photo layouts. Indeed, the picture magazine may be making a general comeback. French Publisher Daniel Filipacchi is assembling a sizeable staff to revive Look magazine as a weekly early next year; the German magazine firm Gruner & Jahr will launch a U.S. version of its expensively produced...