It was displayed on the mantelpiece of a New York family who had no idea of its real worth, auctioneers Sotheby's said.
Whatever you think you are getting out of remaining a C corporation may no longer be worth it in light of this case.
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Part of the explanation is that most investors have no idea of the bonds' true worth.
Quake hopes to usher in the next revolution in biology by shrinking the size of equipment and planting several labs worth of it onto rubber chunks no bigger than a postage stamp.
According to the auctioneers, the seller had "sat on them" for years with "no idea" of their worth.
Senate Democrats have insisted there's no credible evidence of fraud worth investigating, and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has threatened to block other Senate business unless Republicans abandon the effort.
Hornaday, and in the Deep Ecology movement, associated with Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer, who, in the early seventies, noticed that some environmentalists had begun arguing that no species was of greater worth than another, and that ecosystems should be protected for their own sake, not simply to benefit mankind.
In the eyes of golf consumers, there's no better validation of a club's worth than its use by the pros.
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There is no procedure for writing down the value of such loans, no matter how questionable their worth.
Usually, prescription drugs lose one-third of their worth when their patents no longer protect them from generic imitations.
And no amount of material wealth is worth such soullessness and malaise.
But almost all will miss a slate of very interesting and unique lesser known options, well worth seeking out and many of them available no place else.
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It is also possible that being outside an increasingly integrated European Union would fundamentally undermine the City as a global financial centre and cause many global businesses to quit the UK. All of this is worth debating, and no doubt will be, here and elsewhere, in the years to come.
If there are only a few bats, pursuing a modest lifestyle, and the contents of the church are worth little, then no action may be required.
Paper currencies have no intrinsic value and need the appearance of worth to inspire public confidence.
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He has instituted a regulatory look-back that is unprecedented and has his administration combing through the regulations of the past, eliminating those that are no longer worth enforcing and rewriting those that can be made more efficient for American business to grow.
USDA. The government is no longer financing the stockpiling of a year's worth of crops or more.
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There is no clearing house for the tens of trillions of dollars worth of derivatives trading, so there is an effort to make the trading more visible.
Today, she is no longer sure the campaign is worth the loss of so many lives.
The CFP designation is no guarantee of competence or honesty, but it's worth a bit more than some other credentials.
After scrutinising the details, Northrop and EADS came to the conclusion it was no longer worth their while going through the motions of submitting a formal bid.
No-one has yet studied the net worth of the fish Lake Turkana produces, the benefits of the cattle pasture - and the costs that society will have to bear if those things disappear.
Fully titled "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears, " the track uses the classic disc (also 1928) by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby as a starting point, with an unmistakably similar two-beat underpinning, a slow grind that makes it impossible to pin it down either rhythmically or chronologically.
No single business is worth the long-term reputation of a private-equity firm to "get away" with an inappropriate price.
At the time, Mr Straw sought to blame the previous administration, saying that Labour had no choice but to stick to two years' worth of Conservative spending plans on taking office because of the allegedly parlous state of the public finances.
"I'm no different than every other American, worrying about the worth of their nest egg, " he says.
Both insider selling and insider buying are worth watching but in terms of looking for reasons to say no given the current environment, insider selling is a better indicator.
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Had the U.S. Government needed to sell an additional several trillion dollars worth of Treasuries on the open market in recent years, no one knows whether and on what terms they would have been absorbed in the marketplace.
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The trouble is that no such bold ideas are worth discussing until Mr Milosevic is out of the way.
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