Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When local devotees of the Metropolitan Opera gather this week in Hynes Auditorium to revel in their share of the Met's annual national tour, they will get their money's worth, even at $20 or $25 a seat. They will see and hear first rate singers like Jon Vickers, Regine Crespin, Luciano Pavarotti, Leonie Rysanek, and Sherrill Milnes. They will probably leave with high regard for the Met's artistic standards. They may even be a bit jealous of their New York acquaintances who can stroll down to Lincoln Center, spend astonishingly large amounts of money...
...verbal exuberance of his youth in each of the play's celebrated passages. Like Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech, Romeo and Juliet studies insubstantiality, considering love as the product of words, not acts. After all, there isn't much in the plot to convince an audience of the worth of the love between Romeo and Juliet: a kiss at a masked ball, a nighttime encounter, a secret marriage, and one night together are its only substance...
...push democracy too hard. At the same tune, Deng and his allies had a message for foreign businessmen hoping to profit from China's opening to the West: Don't push industrialization too fast. Japanese companies suddenly found themselves prevented from fulfilling 30 contracts worth $2.1 billion for plants and machinery, as Peking appeared to have second thoughts about its massive Four Modernizations campaign. The cutback also hit American corporations. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel, both of which were on the verge of closing multimillion dollar deals for the sale of equipment to develop iron ore mines, were...
...teacher. As he concedes, "Some people say that I couldn't succeed at anything, so I became a prophet of doom." A decade ago, he was $250,000 in debt after his speed-reading schools failed and he had to declare personal bankruptcy. Today he estimates his net worth at $600,000 and reports that he has paid off all but three of his creditors. Says Ruff: "This nation is ripe to be manipulated by a powerful personality. I am appalled at the ease with which I am acquiring a following...
Although the committee has not yet scheduled a meeting, one of the first issues it faces may be Radcliffe's sale of a half-million dollars worth of stock in Bank of America...