Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Bonnie. But when they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms," she says, "it seems worth all the waiting, money, traveling and hassle...
...brother Joseph, now 21, was one who did not. He arrived on a day Lacayo remembers as the happiest in his family's life. "All the while that I worked on this piece," says Lacayo, "I had my brother in mind as the image of why adoption is worth whatever trouble people go through." Despite uncovering some painful sides of adoption, our staffers came away heartened by how many children and potential parents are finding happiness by finding one another...
...British, the West Germans and the Japanese, respectively. So do such U.S.-born corporate names as Smith Corona, Brooks Brothers and Pillsbury (all British); General Electric TV sets and home electronics (French); Wilson Sporting Goods (Finnish); and Carnation (Swiss). Last year foreign investors acquired nearly 400 U.S. businesses, worth a total of $60 billion. That was 61% more than the previous year and represented a drastic quickening of the pace five years earlier, when overseas buyers took over 111 companies, valued at just $2.2 billion. Foreign owners now control more than 12% of all U.S. manufacturing assets and employ...
...gave out a total of 30,531 awards worth more than $5.5 billion during fiscal year 1988, said James D. Tucker, a computer systems analyst with NIH's Division of Research Grants...
Brave and Crazy is not the kind of album you will listen to at high volume or play at dance parties. The instruments sound thin, and the songs only run the gamut of A to F. In spite of all that, Etheridge's voice and passion make this album worth a listen...