Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only problem the project leaders encountered with the technique was the reaction of fretful parents. Some objected to the "antiwar tone" and "unpatriotism" of Hiroshima, the mention of menstruation in The Diary of a Young Girl. But such niceties failed to bother the kids. More important to them was the discovery that a good book can be fascinating-even if it is educational...
...course, the umpires, who rarely enforce Rule 8.02-because, they claim, it is unenforceable. "You may know a pitch was a spitter-but how do you prove it?" shrugs Cal Hubbard, the American League's supervisor of umpires, and one of his subordinates says: "We don't bother the pitchers as long as they don't embarrass...
East European marketing people still have a relatively easy task. "They don't have to bother with motivation of buying Surf, Duz or Tide," commented a U.S. marketing expert in Vienna. In most cases, the consumer buys a product because that is all there...
This is what they call in the trade a "black week," one of four each year (others: Dec. 18-24, April 17-23, June 19-25) when the viewing public is busy elsewhere, when the Nielsen people don't bother with audience ratings, and when the competing networks hold back most of their big shows. Witness...
Enter the Japanese. Now there are 19 U.S. companies in the growing piano market, and it has become more competitive than ever. Some companies actually pay artists to use their pianos. Prestigious Steinway sells all the pianos it can make (3,500 a year), hence does not bother; but many manufacturers spend as much as $50,000 for an endorsement from a big-name performer or a music center. The struggle for the mass market has stiffened with the entry of low-priced Japanese models. Even now, before the Kennedy Round tariff reductions, which will lower duties from...