Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England clam chowder ($1.75) is a serving so small it's hardly worth calling it a bowl. The chowder consisted of pasty lukewarm stock with a few chunks of clam miserably clinging to the bottom. There weren't even many potatoes...
...REFUSAL of Admiral Stansfield Turner, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to heed Harvard's guidelines about the agency's activities on campus is worth serious attention. Catcalls of 'academic freedom' and 'government spying': reflex reactions for many members of the academic community: are not sufficient responses...
...success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even he is apt to produce worthless intelligence or metamorphose into a double-agent. The intelligence gained is simply not worth the monetary or human cost (at least 40 suicides among such agents in place have been documented according to Corson...
...British Foreign Office said yesterday it will send $160.000 worth of medical and other supplies to the region in response to an aid request from Yugoslavia...
...four years left on his Patriots contract. But that didn't stop the Flatirons-or him. To entice Fairbanks westward, they reportedly offered him a package considerably more attractive than his $150,000 salary with New England: $45,000 in base pay, frequent TV appearances and football clinics worth an estimated $100,000 annually, a $250,000 paid-up life-insurance policy and a chance to play golf and give "motivational talks" to businessmen at $3,000 a shot. Fairbanks said fine, but then the Patriots spoiled the going-away party by asking the courts to hold...