Word: worth
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Colleges started sharing information in the 1950s. Now critics say the system is tantamount to price fixing. College officials disagree, but they are complying with the inquiry. "I've done almost nothing but work on this request since July 31," says Amherst College treasurer James Scott. It will be worth the effort, he says, if critics "bitching and moaning about college costs" come to see that no one is getting rich teaching the country's children...
...part of the plea agreement, the Panamanian bank could pay a $5 million fine, giving up most of its $6.7 million net worth. The fine would be the largest U.S. penalty ever paid by a bank on money-laundering charges and would be the first time a foreign bank with no formal operations in the U.S. has been convicted of such violations...
...your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
ANYTHING BUT LOVE (ABC, returning Aug. 15, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Angst-ridden stand- up comic Richard Lewis, playing a magazine writer with a yen for Jamie Lee Curtis, made this midseason sitcom worth watching. Now it is back for a few weeks of reruns...
...Close the loophole that exempts inherited assets from capital-gains tax, a reform that would be worth $5.5 billion a year in new revenues...