Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what he considered a "simple assignment": to cover the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Very quickly, says Moyer, "it became obvious that the story was the cry for democracy in Tiananmen." His assignment stretched into weeks, until the fatal night of the military crackdown. "No picture is worth risking your life for," says Moyer, "but at night everyone just went out, snapping away, oblivious to the dangers...
They were one of those New England couples who head "anywhere but here" and leave their homes to fortunate housesitters like myself. Ideal in theory, housesitting can have some unexpected downfalls, leaving me with the ultimate question: is a rent-free summer really worth all this...
...revenue officials plan to attack the drug dealers matter-of-factly. If a dealer's records show he sold $100,000 worth of drugs, "he should have been charging a 5 percent sales tax. He should have gotten $105,000 from the [sales] and then turned that $5000 over to the state," Houghteling said...
Three-quarters of a billion people peered at the murky images on their television screens on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong became the first human to stand on another world. To Americans, the spirit-lifting achievement was well worth the cost and effort. The quest to reach the moon had revitalized U.S. science and technology and yielded countless benefits to industry and the military. Most amazing of all, the Eagle landed only eight years after John F. Kennedy proclaimed the moonshot a national priority...
...influence. Spence would probably still be throwing dinners at the posh Four Seasons Hotel for people like Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, as he did last spring, if the police had not raided a male prostitution service in February. The raid turned up thousands of dollars' worth of credit-card receipts signed by Spence. Though he was not the only Washington figure to use the service (the Washington Times, which broke the story, says some White House and congressional aides will be implicated), Spence must have been among its best customers...