Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each elector who showed up to vote; as a result, there were few empty seats in the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia on election day last week. Geisel picked up 400 of 497 votes. So predictable was his election that he did not even bother attending the voting session...
...work. Garment was appointed a presidential assistant in the areas of civil rights and the arts. For months, Nixon had been unhappy with his defense team's work; White House aides went so far as to criticize Buzhardt publicly. The prospect of that happening to him does not bother St. Clair, who declares: "I assume that's the risk any lawyer runs in representing any client...
...rolling down the highway at 65 m.p.h.; fewer still could top the pride of telling the family that the latest raise would permit the purchase of a still bigger car, with air conditioning. With a car, one could live anywhere, work anywhere, travel anywhere and not have to bother about commuters' tickets or timetables. The car was something to plunge into debt for, boastfully display to friends and neighbors, anxiously take for a checkup whenever it began to cough...
...dissenters were also worried about "the possibility that a police officer ... will use a traffic arrest as a pretext to conduct a search." In fact, some do already; if they "toss" the suspect and find nothing, they may not even bother with the traffic arrest. Last week's decision makes clear that future legal attacks on traffic-arrest searches will focus on whether the arrest was called for in the first place...
...many cases of appendicitis are missed (some with fatal results) and so many heart attacks are misdiagnosed as indigestion, the gun-shy doctor freely orders batteries of tests to reinforce his diagnosis. With so much medical care now at least partially covered by some form of insurance, few doctors bother to reckon what these tests will cost...