Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acres in Guajira. Perhaps 50,000 more acres are cultivated in the southern plains. "I was shocked," he said. "No one thought the problem could be of such dimensions." At a maximum yield, such fields have a potential of producing annually 6 billion lbs. of marijuana, each pound worth $600 on American streets...
...Colombian marijuana grower gets only about 1% of what his harvest will eventually be worth, $6 per lb., but that is five or six times as profitable as growing coffee, corn or cotton. Despite the fact that the government has begun cracking down (it has burned more than 2,000 tons of marijuana since autumn), it is not inclined to be too harsh on the farmers. Says José Miguel Garavito, the swashbuckling operations officer of the Attorney General's antidrug unit: "It is hard to blame a farmer who is growing corn and earning a few pesos for switching when...
...mature confidence; Updike, unafraid in his writing, seems like the narrator who claims that, "Ellello*u's body and career carriedme here, there, and I never knew why, but submitted." Updike obviously knows where he is going, and the reader would be wise to submit; this journey is worth the price...
...full charge of the paper. He'll report to corporate like the other managers, but there's a lot of autonomy in the job." As a Post editor points out, however, Mrs. Graham is "not a shrinking violet." She also controls 50.1% of the voting stock, now worth $20 million, vs. Donald's 13% (the other Graham children have 15% among them). Some measure of how much real authority the Post's new $90,000-a-year publisher will have should come as the paper sets out on a $50 million improvement program to meet...
...dissidents accuse Rader, 48, and the church's head and self-styled prophet, Herbert W. Armstrong, 86, of not only lavish spending but "liquidating the properties of the church on a massive scale." The plaintiffs charge that in the past six months alone 50 pieces of church property, worth millions, have been sold. The attorney general's move touched off pandemonium; at one point, staffers at Pasadena headquarters tried to lock out state agents arriving to seize control, then were caught trying to spirit out church records...