A physicist donates his Shakespeare collection to U.C.L.A., including a book by Montaigne that introduced the Bard to such valuable words as: "adulterous," "miraculous," "depraved," and "scandalous".
Shared book reading (SBR) is a valuable context for word learning during early childhood, and adults' extratextual talk boosts the vocabulary building potential of SBR.
(Verbatim, the valuable word-study publication that the lexicographer Larry Urdang founded in 1974, will celebrate its 30th volume next year).
"Discipline" and "patience" are probably the two most valuable words in value investing.
Artists and venues can profit from incentivizing valuable word-of-mouth referrers with rewards that cost them little or nothing.
And just this past week it was revealed that exhausted interns at Barclay's Bank were forced to take naps on toilets, prompting another financial services executive to offer his valuable words of wisdom: "If you love what you do, it's not work".
In other words, a valuable policy maximizes the entropy over the final states and the expected utility over those states.
He said: "The Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced, because it is uncomfortable.
