If Standard Life were to float at 240p a share and then paid a dividend of 10.8p over the next year, he said, a higher-rate taxpayer would need £2,300 worth of shares just to make worthwhile the cost of the necessary self-select Isa wrapper.
The "narrative", as we say these days, called for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby to be a girl, so as to make worthwhile all Clegg's recent hard work on a non-sexist monarchy (or "throne" as our nominal ruler might be called, as in "chair").
Small teams can crank out applications within days and earn decent paychecks, but large companies only have a handful of opportunities to make worthwhile returns on their investments.
Do you think it is necessary to be an outlaw or outsider to make worthwhile art?
What he's saying is that there's no need for the U.S. to make worthwhile cuts before 2020 because we'd still avoid dangerous climate change by doing all the heavy lifting after that date.
Based on our clinical judgment of how much improvement we should expect to make worthwhile the time and trouble associated with acupuncture, we pre-specified a 20% difference between groups as clinically meaningful.
