There were some great performances – LCD Soundsystem, Ice Cube, Sia, Vince Staples – but I couldn't quite find the transcendence that would make the time, hassle and money worthwhile.
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Mr. McCain, who has vowed to veto all earmarks as president and to "make the authors famous," said this week that he understood that some earmarked projects were worthwhile and deserved money.
"What we need," Merrill wrote in an inaugural statement, is men "who have confidence in the future of their country to sell the people on the idea that shares in American industry are more worthwhile than paper money".Merrill launched a marketing campaign to explain what it did.
It's much more worthwhile to raise money in the traditional way, create value, and hold the tokens yourself.
Nothing is more local than real estate and so the first-time tax credit was an intelligent, targeted, rational response to a very difficult problem, certainly no less worthwhile than giving money to Wall Street banks and brokerages.
It's hard to find worthwhile programs to pour money into.
It depends upon looking at the program and asking: 'Has that money been worthwhile?
Sometimes this inherently worthwhile work would make money, often despite the fact that it may have looked obtuse at first.
"Children under 13 aren't enough of a market, aren't worthwhile to spend the money on compliance and tolerate the risk of getting it wrong," Mr. Reed said.
