Word: worth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Search the attic! Check behind the wallpaper! Lucky scavengers may discover a small fortune in Russian bonds issued during World War I by the government of Czar Nicholas II. For 70 years, the IOUs have scarcely been worth the ornate paper they were printed on. Reason: a year after shooting the imperial family, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated $192 million in the hands of U.S. bondholders. But last week the State Department said U.S. and Soviet officials have started negotiating a repayment of the Czarist loans. Including interest, the settlement could reach $900 million...
...repayment negotiations are being closely watched by officials in New Hampshire, which owns $10,000 in Russian bonds dating back to the 1820s. With interest they could be worth $300,000 today...
...like Duffy, spent the past year on the campaign trail. While Goodgame misses California, he relishes his new assignment. "Michael and I agree that the only thing worse than covering the White House would be not ever getting to cover it," he says. So far, the wait seems worth...
...fight for the leadership in 1987. A rugged sportsman who owns the national-champion baseball team, the Seibu Lions, Yoshiaki flies around the country aboard his jet helicopter to visit his properties and shows up on lists of the world's wealthiest people. He has an estimated net worth of $18.9 billion, compared with Seiji's $1.8 billion...
...clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings. They are expected to go his way, despite a legion of ruffled academics left from his 3 1/2 iconoclastic years at Education. He suggested, among other things, that tony universities were not giving students their big money's worth...