Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become an important business, growers processed 295 million lbs. of the fish last year, up from 47 million lbs. in 1980. But in Mississippi, which produces 90% of all U.S. catfish, some 100,000 migratory cormorants are biting into the profits by feasting on as much as $6 million worth of catfish a year. Because the birds are largely protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, catfish farmers have resorted to elaborate tactics to scare the birds away: screaming fireworks, propane cannons that boom every 15 to 20 minutes, amplified recordings of bird distress calls and even harassment by helicopter...
...futilely hailing cab after speeding cab. Finally he phoned his secretary for assistance. She got one on her first attempt. Gilbert's secretary is white. He is black. "It's pretty hard to feel like you're mainstream," he says with a sigh, "when you're wearing $2,000 worth of clothes and you can't catch a cab at night...
...Take Bush, who in late January declared that his commitment to the highest ethical standards "is not, believe me, a fad or some passing fancy." Of course, this was before Tower began to crumble and it was discovered that Secretary of State James Baker owned an estimated $2.9 million worth of Chemical Bank stock while he was Treasury Secretary with policymaking influence over the treatment of the bank's shaky Third World loans. These days the President sounds less like a patrician reformer as he muses aloud, "I hope I haven't created something that just carries things...
...Gilliam's picture worth all the fuss? Sure, because he has tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling...
...point is that diversity is a goal worth some sacrifice from all of us, and a goal that isn't achieved spontaneously. Moreover, diversity is worthwhile in a college which can attain it so easily as Harvard can. Members of the College would do well to pursue a healthy balance between choice and diversity and support Jewett's new proposal...