Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier era, gas thieves were on the prowl. Usually they siphoned off gas; occasionally they took the whole car. Some resorted to ingenious ruses. Two men were arrested in Miami after police discovered that a floor board had been cut out of their dilapidated van. Underneath was $5,000 worth of equipment, including intake hoses, battery-operated pumps and a 350-gal. storage tank. Apparently the pair would drive into a station, casually park over an unlocked underground tank and help themselves. On a smaller scale, thieves faced another kind of retribution. In the process of siphoning gas, they often...
Government regulations generally require employers with 50 employees and federal contracts worth more than $50,000 to set "goals and timetables" for bringing their minority and female work force up to their percentages in the available labor pool. About 325,000 employers, with a total payroll of 30 million workers, have these programs. The goals are not supposed to be inflexible quotas, though in practice it can be hard to tell a "goal" from a "quota...
Sales of winter vegetables bring about $250 million annually to Florida farmers, but they complain that their profits are pinched by competition from the Mexicans, who sold $250 million worth of vegetables in the U.S. last year. Mexican tomatoes alone account for almost 50% of all winter tomatoes sold in the U.S. The Florida growers claim their Mexican rivals produce too much and then are forced to dump in the U.S. before the vegetables perish. The Mexicans counter that the Floridians are trying to protect their higher-cost industry...
...other people's money), reports that the nation's millionaire population, helped along by inflation, has in the past decade been growing at an average annual rate of 14%. Today, the company calculates, precisely 519,834 Americans-or about one in every 424 citizens-have a net worth of $1 million or more. In 1972, by contrast, the Government count of millionaires was "only...
...moving to Sunbelt states to enjoy their riches. Skilled professionals in fields such as neurosurgery and the law now make enough in fees to enable them to enter the millionaire class rather rapidly. In addition, top corporate executives are fairly often able to pile up a seven-figure net worth over the years...