Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inaction is the worst action; therefore, it is to our own benefit that each of us actually put, or at least attempt to put, some worth, some value in our lives and in our world, and that each of us not just sit and shoot the day, "with the sun on the shoulders and cold drink in hand." Jon Spinello
...Soviet Union by Radio Liberty and other Western short-wave stations. "The awful thing about the Stalin era was that people just disappeared, and nobody knew where they had gone, nobody mentioned them," said Turchin. "Now there is public reaction, and people understand what is happening. The struggle is worth the effort...
...jewels taken out on approval from Cartier, Kitty, 39, was acquitted by a jury after her defense lawyer scored a decisive point: given her notoriety as a compulsive gambler, who could believe that a shrewd firm like Cartier would let her walk away with two rings and a diamond worth...
...publicly. A former auditor of the old Federal Energy Administration, Dale Kuehn, went public to describe how his memos suggesting that cases should be "prosecuted with dispatch" were habitually ignored. A DOE investigator, Joe McNeff, went to the subcommittee in June; he said he found in Houston "$1 billion worth of fraud, four auditors, no secretary and no support...
Shortly before United's announcement, Airbus Industrie, the state consortium owned jointly by France, West Germany and Spain, took an early lead in the sale of new-generation jets by winning 20 orders, worth $500 million, from Lufthansa, Swissair and Air France for the B10. Airbus executives pretended not to be discouraged by Boeing's victory. "United's order was not a launch order for us as it was for Boeing," said one Airbus official in Paris...