Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture is worth a thousand words, Ansel Adams' photographs [Sept. 3] open up a boundless vocabulary...
Radcliffe last month sold $600,000 worth of Bank of America stock because the stock hit an acceptable price and because Radcliffe trustees disagreed with the bank's South African loan policy...
Bank of America currently has mainly short-term loans outstanding to South Africa that comprise a small percentage of the company's $49 billion worth of outstanding loans, Greene said...
Samper, a lawyer and economist, contends that if growing had been legal, Colombia last year could have saved the $120 million it spent on trying to stop it and also collected taxes of $168 million on the huge amount of pot, worth an estimated $1.4 billion wholesale, that was smuggled out of the country. Further, Samper calculates that the estimated 30,000 grower families get only 8% of the earnings of the trade; the rest goes to smugglers and middlemen, most of them North Americans. Legalization, says Samper, would both spread the pot wealth better and rid Colombia of much...
...Fawcett was forced to hobble on crutches to watch a contest selecting her Israeli lookalike. About the only hosts unhappy over her tour were some members of the diamond exchange in Tel Aviv, where normally frantic trading halted while the golden girl oohed over a 17-carat diamond worth $1.5 million. "She cost us a lot of money," growled one trader on the exchange...