Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times--perhaps because of assumptions it makes about its readers or perhaps out of sloppiness--didn't bother to recognize the possibility that people might not see the memorandum for the hack job it is. It never placed the profile in the context of a contrived and systematic attempt to discredit the Ellsberg defense and only in a news story three pages away did it quote anyone as questioning the profile's accuracy. The Times presumed that everyone has realized just how demented Richard Nixon and his government are, and that's not a safe assumption for anyone, let alone...
...purpose of this argument is to justify given social arrangements. If you assume that the differences in races is a function of the differences in genes and that I.Q. is inherited, then you do not have to bother with improvement," Lewontin said...
...noticed it early his freshman year, but it did not bother him that much. After all, things had been that way even in high school. If he got a B+ or two, so what? He could not envision it fucking up his life. Occasionally, he wondered why the professors wanted to make his life miserable, whether they got some sort of sadistic pleasure out of knowing that he hated and feared them...
James St. Clair was born 54 years ago in Akron, Ohio. His father was a mechanical engineer whose work took the family from city to city with disruptive regularity (St. Clair attended four high schools). But the constant uprooting apparently did not bother...
Good Company. The benefits even extend to relationships with other women. Students interviewed in the early group complained that women were "competitive and irritable" around other females. Constantly preoccupied with men, they didn't bother to be good company with each other. Having men around, notes the study, seems to encourage greater friendship and respect between women...