Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There were times when I'd sit out there on the sidelines, with five guys ahead of me and only practices on the scout squad getting my head beat in to look forward to. You begin to wonder whether it's all worth...
Under Alto's prodding, the investigation of the GSA, which employs 35,000 and spends $5 billion annually as the renter, builder and purchasing agent for the Federal Government, has spread to grand juries and U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, Investigators in Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso documented $100,000 worth of fraudulent GSA overpayments after just two weeks of auditing last month. In Bayonne, N.J., investigators have discovered a construction contract that was first awarded to an extremely low bidder for just over $1 million and then was upped substantially in a suspicious change of project plans...
...long been known to contain gigantic amounts of petroleum, but up to now the cost of extracting it has not been justified by the price. Some of the Sisters have moved heavily into metals, a field in which their geologists have considerable expertise. Shell produced and sold $1.2 billion worth of aluminum, copper, zinc and nickel last year, enough to rank it among the top 100 firms on the FORTUNE 500 index even...
...this-world purses, and country-club courtliness has been supplanted by locker-room epithets. With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs...
...single afternoon, he had an overwhelming sense of the fragility and contingency of life. He had never taken plans very seriously in the past. He could not believe in them at all now. 'Who knows if we will be here next week?' If things were worth doing, they were not to be deferred to the precarious future: so he would protect his family, his friendships, his reading from the exactions of public affairs. At the same time he knew he was a child of fortune as well as of fatality - that he had enjoyed far more freedom...