Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's not much we can do for imprisoned dissidents," a member of the Ukrainian Research Institute said, "but this is worth...
...students' rationale for disregarding the law was simply that serving alcohol at parties without a license was illegal already, so serving it to underage students made it just a little more illegal. Hard-core partiers insisted it would be worth a day or two in jail just to be able to throw a tremendous bash...
...government has demonstrated unconscionable neglect toward Cambodia," co-founder Llewellyn C. Werner said yesterday. This summer Werner directed Operation California, which has airlifted more than $3 million worth of food and medicine to Southeast Aisan refugees...
...queuing up to buy Aston Martin's wedge-shaped, futuristic, four-door Lagonda, currently $87,000 and sold out until 1982. After the legendary James Bond, the British company's most famous customer is probably Prince Charles, who tools around London in a 1970 Volante convertible, now worth $78,000. Like all Aston Martins, the car is upholstered with the hides of eight Scottish cattle. West Germany's sleek Porsche 928, priced at $33,220 and voted 1978 Car of the Year by European auto writers, is bought mainly by dentists (the country's highest income...
...certain that any of the mysteries Mailer touches upon are worth this huge effort. Still, his mastery of detail is superb. The story has its startling, bizarre touches: Gilmore's father, it seems, was the illegitimate son of Houdini. Gilmore himself remains a punk, though a moderately interesting one. He spent more than half of his life in jail, and, like other intelligent prisoners, had a routine. He could con intellectuals and other innocents on the outside who tend to be fascinated by violent criminals-literate ones-in the same way that Gladstone was fascinated by prostitutes. Gilmore used...