Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mattie Schultz was caught in a San Antonio market, slipping $15 worth of ham, sausage and butter into her purse, she had a simple explanation: "I was hungry. I was desperate." Mrs. Schultz, 91, subsists on $233 a month, from Social Security and her late husband's military pension. She had once saved $5,000, but all except $10 was taken from her in 1973 by a swindler. Last month, after paying her rent and utilities, she had nothing left for food...
...admired, for example, Somoza García made its owner an offer he dared not refuse, usually about half the property's real value. Often as not, the owner presented the land as a gift. By the time of his assassination in 1956, Somoza García was worth about $150 million...
...company based in the Virgin Islands, two posh condominiums in Coconut Grove for his estranged American-born wife Hope, and a luxurious apartment for his girlfriend Dinorah Sampson. Besides this choice real estate, Somoza's enterprises include six companies in Miami that imported a reported $30 million worth of beef last year, a 49% share of two Colombian coal-mining companies, and a controlling interest in Visión, a conservative newsmagazine that is widely circulated in South America...
Carter has not in the past looked especially kindly on Pan Am. In 1978, for instance, the CAB recommended that Pan Am be awarded a new route between Dallas-Fort Worth and London. Carter rejected the recommendation. Instead, he gave the route to Dallas-based Braniff Airways in what some critics thought was a blatant political bid for support of his energy program by Texas Congressmen. In short, though Pan Am's position is substantially strengthened by its majority holding, its merger with National is not yet guaranteed...
...invariably malevolent. But today's neopagan movement has its roots in the counterculture. Though many neopaganists live otherwise ordinary lives as, say, bank tellers or bartenders, others gather in communes. Psychologists say that neopaganism functions as a form of "folk therapy," a sort of ritualized search for self-worth in an increasingly complex society...