Word: botheration
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...when it suited him, used her as a cipher. His famous Letters from a Father to His Daughter, penned in prison, were never sent to her. Instead, he kept them in his cell waiting for a publisher. She was 20 when they were published in 1938. She didn't bother to read them until years later...
...sense of when stock values are more or less compelling. And, for many reasons, I believe stocks are worth buying again. A host of hopeful signs has popped into view, and the plain truth is that if you don't buy stocks when they're down, you shouldn't bother at all. With the NASDAQ up 32% in 15 days, odds are the market will retrace a bit, or a bunch. But if you stay diversified with proved companies, near-term losses don't matter. Five to 10 years should be a minimum holding period...
...wrote off as unenforceable more than $2.5 billion in taxes owed by 668,018 taxpayers. In 1998, on the other hand, only 98 taxpayers had their cases written off. The IRS has decided that all of these cases are too small to bother pursuing given the cuts in the IRS budget, though some of them involve tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. Since 1992, the number of audits have fallen by as much as two-thirds and the seizure of property to pay for back taxes by as much as 99 percent...
...appreciation of U.S. stocks in the '90s, a measurably closer correlation between U.S. and international stocks on the whole, and an important study last year showing that correlations are tightest in bear markets--meaning that diversification doesn't insulate you much just when you need it most. So why bother...
...doesn't bother other burakumin that Nonaka doesn't want to be a poster-boy for their cause. After all, they haven't been his staunchest supporters, either. Burakumin have traditionally backed socialist and communist parties, while the conservative Nonaka staked his early career on chipping away at the communists' grip on power in Kyoto. "If he becomes Prime Minister," says Kanto, "it won't really change much for us. It would be more difficult for him to do things for us, because at the top, he would have to deal with too many other issues...