Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neil Young--one might assume that it would take a king-hell bummer on the level of an indoor altamont to spoil this film. There is certainly no arguing over the quality of music in the film. Director Martin Scorsese's (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver) film is definitely worth seeing at least once, but somehow The Last Waltz comes up short. It is just a touch too self-conscious, a little bit too perfect in its staging and supposed spontaneity to be completely enjoyable...
...sign of mourning when Foreign Legion casualties from their unit were announced, even though punishment squads of delinquent recruits were already digging graves in a military cemetery near the legion's paratroop base. "If they get you, they get you," said a veteran. "One legionnaire is worth 20 of the opposition...
...youth as a petty criminal in the underworld, Colombo became an efficient member of a five-man assassination squad under one of the Mafia bosses. Assigned in 1963 by another chieftain to murder reputed Godfather Carlo Gambino and two other high-ranking bosses, Colombo decided his victims would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them off. Gambino awarded him a place on the Mafia's supreme council, the Commission, but Colombo was shunned as a stool pigeon and small-time hood by other leaders. Police speculated that his violation of the Cosa Nostra...
...operations, and several are as large as West Germany's Lehndorff Management Ltd., which has invested some $300 million in U.S. properties for 1,800 investors. Reports TIME Bonn Correspondent Barrett Seaman: "An American kind of optimism is everywhere. In Frankfurt, a consortium of banks offered $60 million worth of over-the-counter investment shares in a Houston office building for about $10,000 each, and in three weeks sold out the offering to customers, many of them walking in off the streets. One Munich businessman has gone into partnership with some American friends to invest in New York...
...January the Administration put $400 million into the CETA budget to start business-conducted training programs. Some of this money will be paid to the employer to make up the difference between a trainee's worth and his wage. Last week the Administration followed up with a more generous plan: tax credits for companies that hire the hard-core unemployed, up to $2,000 for each person put to work. The cost could be $1.5 billion a year. This week President Carter will entertain 140 business and black leaders at a White House dinner and plead with them...