Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point to remind his staff repeatedly that a million dollars is a lot of money. In the hundreds-of-billions environment, a million dollars can be lost like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year's budget would extend as far as five round trips to the moon. In dollar bills, the Carter budget would weigh 531,600 tons...
...face of the earth with the exception of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Fort Knox, repository of the world's gold, never at its peak (1942) had such wealth in its vaults (the 445.3 million oz. of gold in Fort Knox in 1942 would be worth a mere $104 billion even at today's prices...
...chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and author of The Other America (partly responsible for arousing the public consciousness of remaining widespread American poverty that led to Johnson's War on Poverty), almost ran. He decided he couldn't get up enough money to make it respectable or worth the time and effort, and didn't feel like going the Eugene Debs self-martyr route. Of course, there is Lyndon H. Larouche...
...push it? Collins goes to the man's house. The TV is blaring, Merv Griffith is ranting about Jacqueline Susanne, a great artist. He wanders through the suspiciously quiet house--a prefab chalet sitting in Vancouver. Can he collect? How much is all this hype worth? How far are you willing to push...
...former resident of the campus of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1973-1976), I publicly opposed as inappropriate the presence there of the Playboy Playmate of the Year and the selling of $5000 worth of Playboy products at the Post Exchange at Christmas. Women on campus were forbidden to shop that evening. Two of the Playmate's bodyguards approached me and threatened me with physical and sexual violence. It was a terrifying experience...