Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I started selling photos in 1976, I'd first have to prove to my customers that photography was an art," says San Francisco Dealer Stephen Wirtz. "Then I'd have to convince them it was an art worth spending money on. Now they say, 'Oh, dear. This is obviously art. Why didn't I do something about it earlier?' " Five years ago there were perhaps a dozen galleries in the U.S. selling photography; now there are at least...
...stop excusing anyone who wants to avoid jury duty. Many lawyers and judges alike are wary of doing away with juries altogether in big cases. Judges have their own biases; at least juries offer what Los Angeles Lawyer Maxwell M. Blecher calls "a bouillabaisse of public viewpoints." These are worth hearing in the antitrust area. Says Business School Professor Donald Vinson: "The question in an antitrust case is not just whether one company should pay another money. It is whether economic power should be concentrated in a big corporation...
more than $1 million worth of gold had disappeared from the U.S. Assay Office, a fortress-like building in lower Manhattan where some 2 million oz. of gold are refined every year. Treasury officials figured that the gold rush took place some time between 1973 and 1977 but could not be more specific because of "significant irregularities" in the office's accounting procedures...
...behalf of the relatives of 22 victims in the Chicago crash, charges that the insurers traditionally stretch out the litigation to hold on for as long as possible to the large sums of money they will inevitably have to pay out. The interest on the money alone is worth millions; Kennelly argues that that interest should be added to the final award...
Collected Stories: 1939-1976 provides a chance to isolate and trace one strand of Bowles' remarkable career. The book's 39 tales are not only worth reading on their own, but their assembly should dispel several myths that have grown up around Bowles' work. First, spreading his talent wide has not meant that he spread it thin; any short list of the best contemporary American stories should include two or three from this volume. Second, Bowles' reputation as a pitiless chronicler of the bizarre and sadistic is undeserved; many of his stories are unquestionably grotesque...