Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After the book emerges in June, the tapes and papers will be opened to other scholars. This will signal another major step into the era of the recorded recollections of the people who make history. The perils of tape recording seem to plague almost everyone, but the rewards are worth it. Jackie and Professor Frantz, it turns out, produced a 35-minute gap when the machine failed. According to Professor Frantz, Jackie was undaunted and got down on her knees to fix it, then reanswered the questions...
...Thursday the Dow Jones Industrials climbed nine points, then surged by almost 20 on Friday, to close at 795, the highest since early January. By day's end, 52.3 million shares, worth $1.4 billion, had changed hands-both records. The previous high volume was 44 million shares on Feb. 20, 1976, and hopeful analysts were wondering whether the 1977-78 bear market had finally ended...
...portfolio is that no organization, not even Harvard, knows everything, so the portfolio benefits from having several different firms, with presumably different investment strategies, making decions. The independence of the smaller firms can cause problems, however, as when Mackay Shields, a New York investment company, bought $800,000 worth of stock in Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust in 1976. The two banks are among the handful of major U.S. banks that loan money to the South African government and help South African get loans from other countries. Shields sold the bank stock this year in the wake of campus protests...
...tell you," the birthday boy said after the match, "it was worth every penny...
...only natural that sociobiologists cannot discuss the very crucial issues of the debate on the worth of such a field. Sociobiologists are not philosophers, or--contrary to their beleif-- sociologists or social theorists. They can search futily for human evidence of their theories, and I wish them luck, but they will never have the final word on the more philosophical questions that are inherent in the debate...