Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this insensitivity that allowed one of my Harvard friends to tell me, only half in jest, that "One Jew at Harvard Business school is worth 1000 rednecks on a chain gang...
...strict enforcement has left local retailers saying that delivering to Harvard students is not worth the hassle...
...Americans respond to disasters and potential disasters is a subject worth dwelling upon. The permanent damage of the stock market's bounciness seems negligible at this point. And while dozens of people were killed in the San Francisco earthquake, and tens of thousands were left homeless, hundreds of millions of people all over the country saw, heard, read or talked about both incidents...
REALLY big: numbers played an integral role in both New York and San Francisco. Perhaps academics who complain of America's mathematical illiteracy will be encouraged. A disaster is not worth getting excited about, it seems, until a number has been attached...
...using such techniques are now strung out along the Carlin Trend. The Dee. Maggie Creek. Gold Quarry. Goldstrike. Blue Star. The Rain. The Bootstrap. American Barrick Resources Corp., a Canadian company, recently announced plans to excavate a billion tons of rock to get at 12 million oz. of gold -- worth about $4.4 billion at current prices. In the process, the mine will bequeath to posterity a hole 1,500 ft. deep, 4,000 ft. wide and 7,000 ft. long...