Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean to bother you, but I'm in distress...
...most basic objection to the poll is that the questionnaire reached only 43 per cent of the class. People who filled out the poll, the argument continues, were more highly motivated to get their answers recorded than those who did not bother to answer the questions. Therefore, the logic concludes, most of the people who are against the war had their answers tabulated, while the "silent middle"--the 57 per cent who weren't polled--are probably a good deal more conservative. The poll was therefore not representative of the class...
Untamed Animal. But in music as in life, Mehta does not let occasional ragged spots bother him as long as his general progress remains as continuous and soaring as a Richard Strauss melody. The analogy is his own: he responds with special keenness to Strauss's music...
...that the mutual fund helps agents sell more insurance. Much of it, to be sure, is of the low-cost term variety that expires when the policyholder reaches a specified age. The fact that such insurance has no cash value, notes Federal Vice President H. Curtis Reed, does not bother investors "who expect to accumulate $50,000 in mutual funds at the end of 20 years...
...past, producers operated on the axiom that if viewers could be hooked in the first three weeks of a new series, they would stick with it all season. So why bother about quality? Now, says NBC's Mort Werner, "viewers are less committed. They make their selections on a program-by-program basis, and if a special seems more interesting than a series, well, the dial is just an arm's length away...