Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigators found that GSA's self-service stores, where federal workers obtain office supplies, were robbed of goods worth millions of dollars. One employee walked away with $262,000 worth of Polaroid film over a two-week period. Some store managers placed bogus orders with suppliers, paid them for the undelivered goods and pocketed kickbacks of 40% or more...
...Jersey office-furniture company has sold the GSA many million dollars worth of desks, filing cabinets and metal tables. Investigators suspect that Government equipment specifications were designed expressly for the manufacturer...
...last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole more than $1 million worth of jewelry, silver and furs...
...many Cubans, complain that the Haitians are a potential drain on government assistance and should be sent home. But, because they are in the U.S. illegally, they do not qualify for welfare or other government help. The National Council of Churches has, since 1974, provided them with $500,000 worth of emergency housing, food and medicine...
Child guidance is suggested here: some scenes may not be suitable for adults. But for those who suspect maturity is not worth the barbiturates, the new Pink Panther is first-class folderol...