Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haley hospitably offers a glass of Minute Maid lemonade-and yes, it turns out she won that too. Mrs. Haley is one of millions of "contesters" who compete yearly for the more than $100 million worth of prizes offered by U.S. advertisers to promote their products. Most contestants, like her, are retirees who have come to the Sunbelt after years of hard work in cold towns of the North and Midwest. They stay in touch with one another through a network of contesters' groups and subscribe to bulletins like the monthly Contest News-Letter (circ. 50,000) to keep...
Their illicit cargo-ten tons of marijuana, worth $22 million in street sales -apparently saved three of the four smugglers. On impact the burlap bags slammed forward into the cockpit, broke open and literally popped the surviving crew members out of the plane as it disintegrated and burned. Said a Union Parish sheriffs deputy: "Those guys are lucky to be alive, and thanks to the pot they are. But they're sure going to get to know our jail real well." They face up to ten years for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The fourth crew member...
London's bookies were already taking bets on the election's outcome. An estimated $1 million worth of Tory Party advertising was bursting from billboards and TV sets proclaiming LABOR ISN'T WORKING. Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher, 52, canceled a holiday trip to France and waded into a twelve-hour-a-day schedule of speeches and political appearances. For his part, Prime Minister James ("Sunny Jim") Callaghan, 66, seemed as caught up as everyone else in a pre-election whirl, trumpeting the virtues of his Labor Party at the annual Trades Union Congress in a rousing...
...paintings, valued at $50,000, included "A Portrait of a Standing Young Man Holding a Pen," by Cornelius Van Haarlem, worth $30,000. They were stolen from the home of Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts...
...appear to be carrying nothing more negotiable than vigorous health are hardly patsies for muggers. No matter what their charm in repose, few runners going at full grunt offer a vision apt to incite any but the most dedicated molester. Finally, running has yet to produce an idea worth the kind of attack that citizens regularly launch against politicians, economists or entertainers...