Well, they may only be worth half what you thought they were worth a few months ago.
This was not my first choice by any means, but it was at a respected agency, so I thought it was worth a shot.
Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.
Here are the ones I did see that I thought were worth a mention.
U.S. banks got in trouble because they were holding mortgage securities that were worth a lot less than the banks initially thought they were.
German newspaper Bild reported that Schumacher, who turns 41 in January, had already agreed a deal, thought to be worth 7m euros, with Mercedes in principle.
Or that the cohesion and unity that comes from keeping a promoted squad together is worth more than we thought.
So he secured a different arrangement: at the end of each year, Rajaratnam would give him whatever he thought his information had been worth, a common practice at McKinsey.
There will be questions as to whether the cost of employing NHS managers to check the precise immigration status of everyone who uses the health service, distinguishing between temporary and permanent migrants for example, is worth the cost for what is thought to be a tiny fraction of the NHS overall budget.
And although it may be true that a picture is worth a thousand words, it takes only seven words to express that thought.
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Gave up, pulled out, thought too small, or walked away from a fight worth having.
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Companies are taking the loss of a billion here and a billion there simply because the securities they own are worth less than they thought.
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Therefore, I predict that anyone with even a brain cell's worth of adventure will be less intimidated by the thought of Linux on Alpha than they would have been by NT on Alpha.
For example, a company with illiquid assets, under a heavy debt burden facing upcoming debt maturities and finding itself unable to refinance, may have to sell off assets at a bad time for less money than it thought those assets were worth.
"How good it was to hear these women's past and present thoughts, how everyone looked so good -- still -- and what a great thought on the part of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders to think it was worth sharing, " said model Tyson Beckford, who attended the party.
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According to National Economic Research Associates, a consultancy, most buyers paid more for these assets than their regulators thought they were worth.
Since dislike of being governed by a minority of Tories was a big reason why many people thought devolution was a good idea, many Labour voters may now think it is not worth the bother.
For what it is worth, I thought that the main lesson from Australia concerned constitutional inertia, and the difficulty in getting a referendum passed when the prime minister of the day is urging a 'no' vote.
Chad's Doba oil reserves are thought to contain 25 years' worth of supply at an output rate of 225, 000 barrels a day.
During the last debt ceiling debate I put together a variety of quotes from reputable conservative economists to show this, and I thought it might be worth bringing them out again.
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But a lot of my Fayetteville neighbors, who have young children, thought the supersized property tax bill was worth paying in exchange for world-class public schools.
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