Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baba's cave. This is West 47th Street, a tiny world of its own that handles about half of the diamonds entering the U.S. Here brokers play middleman between American buyers and the supplying De Beers syndicate in London, and the deals amount to more than $2.5 billion worth of rare gems a year...
...Paretsky, 71, left the street with $500,000 in diamonds, heading for a meeting at the nearby Hilton Hotel. No trace of him has been found. Two days later, Satya Narian Gupta, 27, one of the handful of Indian dealers on the street, left his office with $300,000 worth of stones. Three days later, his body was found bound and strangled in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. There have been no arrests in the case. The well-publicized incidents have made the merchants even more tight-lipped than usual. They fear that any talk with outsiders could lead only...
...reason that so many are willing is that for many mainlanders the gloss has gone off some once fashionable Caribbean and Mexican resorts. The dollar is worth a dollar, almost. The natives speak English, sort of. It is a fairly easy hop for U.S. Westerners, who account for 80% of Maui's visitors (though 600 people a day flew from New York City en route to Maui on United alone last year). Though here and there a McDonald's, a Pizza Hut, a Baskin-Robbins has sprouted, it is still possible on Maui to rediscover the idyllic Hawaii...
...Whaler, a twelve-story high-rise in Kaanapali, a two-bedroom apartment that sold for $175,000 in 1973 is worth $450,000 today...
...flight magazines, those airline-sponsored throwaways, used to be as bland and insubstantial as inflight food. Now they are expensively produced, professionally edited and immensely prosperous. Ten leading airline monthlies last year carried advertising worth $20 million, or double the amount three years...