Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS twist of fate is worth savoring, in part, because it happened to William Bennett. But, beyond personalities, Bennett's fate seems so quirky simply because of the way it juxtaposes elite culture with popular culture. That incongruity itself is funny, the same way the very existence of A. Bartlett Giamatti--a scholarly baseball commissioner--struck us as funny...
...addition, many top-of-the-line restaurants are delivering their own plastic-packaged food, largely to combat the still lingering drop in business since the 1987 market crash. As a result, according to the Lempert Report, a food-industry newsletter, U.S. restaurants expect to sell more than $10 billion worth of home-delivered food in 1990, up from $2.6 billion...
...living in the D.C. jail is a horror. It's dirty, it's noisy, it's crowded, and you have no privacy. But I chose this because the middle-class American existence is worthless to me if my daughter is being raped. The destruction of my child is not worth any possessions. Just having her safe makes me happy...
...officers of Italy's largest bank, the state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Chairman Nerio Nesi, 64, and Director General Giacomo Pedde, 62, resigned after the bank's board heard the results of an initial probe into a scam in which the bank's Atlanta branch gave $2.6 billion worth of unauthorized export credits to Iraq to buy machinery and agricultural goods...
...Airbus Industrie has emerged as Boeing's main competitor in the lucrative commercial aviation sector. While the U.S. struggles to regain momentum in its space shuttle program, Western Europe's Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-nation European Space Agency, has completed 33 launches and has $2.1 billion worth of contracts on its order books. On the research front, Western Europe is poised to leapfrog the U.S. in the esoteric but strategically important field of high-energy physics. Funded by 14 European countries, the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland has completed construction of the world's most...