Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year, both Duehay and Wolf voted against the sale of property rights on the site of the Harvard Motor House, correctly arguing that the city had almost no idea of the actual worth of the property. Unlike the majority of the City Council, they did not simply place their trust in the developer's promise that the deal was a fair one. Two more years of a little healthy suspicion would serve the council well...
Proponents of 1-2-3 counter that owners will offer discounts to tenants, who are the only ones able to buy from them. A landlord would sell a $100,000, unit at $75,000, because under rent control it is only worth $30,000, the theory goes...
...goes under in ten months," she told him, "our whole economy is in trouble." Seven months later, ACC filed for bankruptcy and the retiree lost all his $65,000 -- "$1,000 for every year of my life," he wrote. Some 22,000 other customers hold $250 million worth of worthless ACC bonds...
...bulging under their open vests flank the doorway. Before anyone is allowed into the building, the guards check via walkie-talkie with the building's most prominent resident: Argentina's new Ambassador-at-Large, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. She is the country's richest woman, with an estimated net worth of more than $1 billion. "I hate bodyguards," she apologizes, as she escorts a visitor into the elegance of her Louis XVI salon in a duplex apartment on the uppermost floors. "I hired them only after some people tried to kidnap my teenage grandson two years ago." The physical risks...
...most chagrined to read in last Friday's Crimson your report that the Harvard Lampoon is "the University's wealthiest undergraduate organization" with "a net worth of $1.6 million." Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc., owned by undergraduates, is the sole owner of WHRB-FM. WHRB-FM's broadcast license is valued between $5 million and $10 million in the Boston market, making WHRB wealthier than the Lampoon. Marc D. Peters WHRB-FM Station Manager