Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indians and cowboys have never been Dr. Freedberg's "bag". He is into "high" art. Though one painting may be worth more than $750,000 just for the art in it, Peabody's paintings are valued for other reasons...
...family of four whose income is worth $20,000 at today's levels has seen its effective federal income-tax rate rise from 12.4 per cent in 1968 to 16.2 per cent today, Roth said. And by 1983, if current trends continue and the family continues to receive pay increases to match inflation, the tax bite will climb to 20.2 per cent, he added...
...Texas International Airlines of taking over National. But the Texans, who have lately spent $48 million to buy 20% of National's stock, probably will not be sore losers. At the $41 price that Pan Am is offering for National stock, Texas International's investments will be worth $70 million...
Then came a sequence of "whiles"-a while as a door-to-door encyclopedia and Bible salesman, a while as a plumber's helper in Oregon, a while as a disc jockey in Fort Worth, and so on. Willie was forever setting off for new destinations with everything he could call his own loaded into his 1946 Ford: Martha, the three kids they soon had, some furniture and an "Oklahoma credit card" (a length of hose for siphoning gas from roadside tanks). A few years of this and Martha began heading for a destination of her own: divorce court...
...cents in an Omaha junkshop." But the work published anonymously, and not until 1958, thirty years later, did she discover the author's identity. Having rescued Rebecca Harding Davis's voice from the permanent silence of a slow, crumbling junkshop death alone makes Silences a book worth reading...