Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbia University sold $2.7 million worth of stock in three banks last week because the banks would not make policy statements regarding their loans to the South African Government...
...bands, and produced another packet. The two haggled for a moment in Yiddish and then the second packet was also rejected. That day there would be no sale between the broker, who carried the diamonds around on consignment, and the cutter. The visitor took his worn pouch, holding stones worth thousands of dollars, and concealed it in an inside pocket of his coat. Then he headed off to another shop...
...high value the Hasidim place on personal honor sets the tone for the street, where packets of diamonds worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are traded by verbal agreements. Says one dealer: "If I broke my word in a deal, the word would be passed, and I would be dead in the business. No one would talk to me. I would be shunned...
Casual dealings like these would seem to make the area ripe for robberies. It is hard to say how much is stolen per year-$1.1 million worth of diamonds was reported taken during the first 2½ months of 1979-because the dealers shy away from police. Says Lieut. Edward O'Connor, commander of the Manhattan robbery squad and a former detective in the diamond district: "It's a very clandestine business. Very few people will cooperate or tell you anything...
...other pals, he bought 2,500 acres of farm land in Paso Robles, Calif., for $750,000 and turned 500 acres into a vineyard that has become famous for its Merlot grapes. Future plans call for building a 40,000-case winery on the property. The land is now worth $7 million and that, Rogers says, "can make you a very interesting person to talk to at cocktail parties...