Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market is worth maybe $2 billion a year, which in Detroit's terms is penny ante. But sales abroad of cars made in the U.S. are rapidly increasing. General Motors last year exported 125,000 cars, up from 98,000 in 1977, and both Ford and Chrysler are doing well. The strongest demand is from Western Europe, especially Switzerland, Belgium and the country where people have prided themselves on making some of the world's best cars, West Germany...
...South and West. Five states (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Vermont and Alabama) would lose all passenger train services. But Adams claims that the summed Amtrak could still serve 91% of its present customers and all of America's 25 or so largest cities (except Atlanta, Cincinnati and Dallas-Fort Worth...
...Government's case rests in part on information received from Albert B. Alkek, 68, an elusive Texas oil baron who was named by FORTUNE as one of America's invisible rich, worth about $200 million. Although a star suspect who was described by a federal investigator as in it up to his neck," Alkek avoided criminal charges by cooperating with the authorities and pleading a weak heart (a condition that did not prevent a dove-hunting trip in Mexico). Alkek admitted knowing about and not reporting the fraud and destroying a letter that would have documented the crime...
Opera--even light opera--is pretty tough for college students to put on, however, and if you're a Strauss buff or just can't resist live vocal music, Lowell's Fledermaus might be worth it. But if you're not a vocal nut, and think you'd depend on stage qualities to hold your attention, stay away...
...spots are usually mixed down so far as to be barely audible. His band is topnotch--it includes accomplished jazz players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of players like Bennie Maupin and Alphonse Mouzon--but the high level of hypnotic repetition. The band is worth hearing; Hancock was a vanguard in the field of instrumental funk, and he continues to play it better than anyone else. It's a shame that a jazz festival can't be a forum for these exciting musicians to play jazz...