Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blunt that possibility, Washington has sold Bangkok $400 million worth of sophisticated weapons in the past fiscal year, including 150 M48 tanks. A spokesman for the Defense Department said last week that shipments of arms to Thailand had been speeded up during the past several months because the U.S. has been concerned that the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia might spread to other countries...
Last week, however, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn told Mays to say goodbye to baseball. Kuhn's edict came after Mays decided to sign a ten-year contract worth more than $1 million with Bally Manufacturing Corp. to make public appearances on behalf of the firm's new Atlantic City casino. Such a close tie with a gambling organization, Kuhn ruled, "is not in the best interests of baseball," and he told Mays that if he works for Bally, he must give up his job with the Mets...
...miserableness of his archetypal suburban man, who wanders "an irreducible unit, visiting one or another of the pieces of his life scattered like the treasure of a miser outsmarting thieves." Updike outsmarts, creating melancholy without proposing how solitary suburbanites can collect these bits to make a life worth living. He collects problems without morals...
Both houses of Congress have already approved $30 million worth of aid to Cambodia, but the legislation is tied up in debates over amendments, Charlotte E. Ward. SAC co-founder, said yesterday...
...prosecution accused Richard D. O'Connor of stealing over $100 worth of goods from a car in the Broadway St. garage while he was on duty on Dec. 15, 1978. The University placed him on suspension on Dec. 18, 1978, and fired him nine days later...