Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...split. Fenn says that although the President did want the library at Harvard, "the corporation was not willing to accept conditions which residents essentially imposed." In retrospect, says one source close to the family, the corporation had to make a choice whether the split-site proposal was worth the trouble--and they decided that it wasn...
During the late 60s, oil companies and coal producers (many of the same corporations) began to realize that America's continued industrial development was going to run up against hard times in eastern labor-intensive underground coal mines--where almost 400 years' worth of coal remains. Instead, companies looked eagerly towards the "Great American Coal Basin"--the western United States. There the coal lies close to the surface and high production with minimal labor costs is the name of the game...
...always pay to call the cops. Paul N. Halvonik, 40, a California Courts of Appeal justice, and his lawyer wife Deborah, 37, apparently do not read police fiction. Returning to their home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs. Halvonik found that a burglar had stolen $1,450 worth of television and video-tape equipment. She called the cops. The Oakland P.D., in the person of Patrolman Monte Beers, responded in short order. While checking out the perpetrator's point of entry, Officer Beers later reported, he spotted some long-leafed plants growing in redwood boxes on the balcony...
...four Guardsmen invaded the factory last week, their drab fatigues covered by yellow plastic suits, gloves and shoe covers. Under the direction of officials from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy and the state's own atomic energy commission, the Guardsmen sealed some $500,000 worth of tritium into 55-gal. drums. To the infiltrators the plant appeared "sloppier and worse than anticipated," Babbitt said. Company officials retorted that the hubbub was "like a Nazi camp in there." They called Babbitt's action "absolutely crazy" and accused him of having chosen "to throw...
...this point Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke up. He thought the whole debate irrelevant. Either the sanctuaries were a danger or they were not. If it was worth cleaning them out, he did not understand all the pussyfooting about the American role or what we accomplished by attacking only one. Our task was to make Vietnamization succeed. He favored an attack on both Fishhook and Parrot's Beak, including American forces...