Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowing truckers to hold the entire nation virtually at ransom by preventing shipments to plants and businesses with no direct role in the union negotiations. More than 200,000 workers have been laid off from factories idled by a lack of raw materials and supplies. Almost $2 billion worth of imports and exports are piling up at British ports because of the union blockades. With no power to curtail the flying pickets, Callaghan has gone so far as to en courage Britons to defy them. "Everyone in this country is entitled to cross a picket line if he disagrees with...
...minority Labor government faced increasing protests in the Storting (parliament) over the Swedish linkup and there were opposition threats of a no-confidence vote that could have forced him to resign. Reason for the resentment: the widespread feeling that Norway's prospective percentage of Volvo was not worth as much as Nordli was willing...
...given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million Palm Springs Calif, resort, a British island in the Pacific, a $10 million bank in Aspen, Colo and $850,000 worth of property in Dallas...
...plays Miriam, the chief accomplice and paramour of the suave con man, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), who masterminded England's first celebrated train heist in 1855. Miriam served as an all-purpose decoy: to help steal ?12,000 worth of gold ingots, she had to pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery...
...have been no more than the kind of defeat which brought him to the brink of existence, his own rather than that of civilization. At that edge, where he had to stare into the abyss, he saw himself drowning, and the question for him was whether he was worth saving...