Then, as now, promoters in their pre-fight publicity exploited boxers' ethnicity for all it was worth.
And we were milking it for all it was worth because we don't get out that often.
With great enthusiasm, the Italians had voted in a Prime Minister who milked his control of the media for all it was worth while simultaneously denying that he had any conflicts of interest.
"When we told him he made the club, he said, 'Finally, after all these years, it was certainly worth all the work and effort, '" manager Terry Collins said.
After those two thin red lines on the pregnancy test 12 months later, it was all worth it.
However, ask a 30-year-old Irishman in 15 years whether it was all worth it and it will be an undoubted yes.
Sometimes on the plane Rini wondered if it was all worth it - especially when people she had known for years no longer trusted her.
Every man and woman I spoke to reflected on how it was all worth it for that feeling when the search is a success and a life is saved.
All the hard work was worth it when we saw the great reactions from the visitors, many of whom have been watching with anticipation as Saltholme has developed over the last few years.
As for the Republicans who joined with the Tea Party to stage a revolution just a few years ago, only to be presented with Romney and Santorum, they must be asking if all their effort was remotely worth it.
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But with all the small talk and the sweaty palms, was it really worth it?
Another often-used argument was that what we were proposing would not stop all criminals from securing or using firearms, and therefore it was not something worth doing.
And, since each individual point you earn is all but worthless, it can be difficult to tell whether the reward was worth whatever extra spending you may have engaged in to secure it.
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After the Cuban missile crisis I asked both McGeorge Bundy and Robert Kennedy if they would tell me how much that single evaluated piece of photographic evidence was worth, and they each said it fully justified all that the CIA had cost the country in all its preceding years.
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The gratitude, the simplicity, and the lasting impression of the pleasure that was brought to this family by the REDD brand is all worth it.
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"It was very tough for me to get here, but it has all been worth it, " said Messi.
But it was really worth doing a news journalism course as it gave me all the basic skills I use today.
And all of a sudden it was this thing where you absolutely had to write 30 minutes' worth of music in three days and record it.
Gloucester's New Zealand All Black Ian Jones immediately proved his worth in the line-out, but it was Bristol's overseas star Henry Honiball who stirred them from their early slumber.
Shankari Devi from the Indian city of Udaipur arrived on Sunday and spent the night in the open but her conclusion this morning was that "we had a good bath so all the troubles were worth it".
Strange but true: the euro is worth almost as much today as it was a month ago, despite all the dramas in Greece and Italy.
For what it's worth, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was aware of the negotiations all along, although she didn't personally take part.
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