Word: worth
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...steal patents? Even a curious spy can buy a copy of any single patent for $1.50. Still, a roll of the microfilm sells for about $100, and the full set could be worth at least $100,000 to inventors who must explore the past before pursuing a new idea. The FBI's best guess is that the thieves hope to sell duplicates at cut-rate prices...
Rock's been a megabusiness for much of its adult life. In 1973 there was $2 billion worth of record and tape sales in the U.S.; in 1988 total sales (including CDs) were $6.2 billion. Bucks like that encourage uncivil marriages of commerce and creativity such as tour sponsorship (the Stones are going out under the aegis of MTV and Budweiser -- careful driving home from the show, now) while discouraging the innovation, the sheer recklessness, that rock music needs in abundance...
...unknockable from his hometown. Katharine Hepburn, he harps, "has always seemed to me all cheekbones and opinions, and none of the opinions has ever struck me as terribly original or terribly interesting, dependent as they are on a rather parochial Hartford definition of quality, as reinterpreted by five decades' worth of Studio unit publicists." Writing well, or at least trying to, is the best revenge...
...mergers, leveraged buyouts or employee-stock- ownership plans. All told, such buybacks have reduced the supply of shares on the market by a record $94 billion during the first half of the year, or nearly 4% of all outstanding stock. The buyout of RJR Nabisco alone took $25 billion worth of stock off the market, while the acquisition of Warner Communications by Time Inc. will reduce supply by another $14 billion...
...their killers; only 12% were slain by strangers. Washington had a horrendous murder rate of 59.5 per 100,000 people, more than seven times the national average. Atlanta was the most crime-ridden city in the U.S. For all types of crimes, including thefts and arson, Atlanta led Fort Worth, Dallas, Seattle and St. Louis in the top five. Much maligned New York City was 15th in its overall crime rate and tenth in the homicide rate. No FBI figures were available for Miami, but statistics from local police indicated that the city apparently had the fifth highest murder rate...