Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Michael J. Barrett '70 didn't even bother with food. Of course, at the ballroom of the Royal Soneta Hotel in east Cambridge, there was a very little to celebrate...
Finally, the movies I didn't even bother to go to: Getting Even With Dad stands out, as does Little Big League. Camp Nowhere is another unmentionable, as is Angels in the Outfield. I'm sure there were others, but I've blocked them...
...proctors and tutors didn't write the rules, so why bother arguing with them? One person's objections will probably not change a policy intended for 6,400 people, or for the 20-some people in your entryway. In fact, your proctor or tutor probably represents the most sympathetic ear in the administration. He or she is also the person you'll be obliged to interact with for the rest of the year. It's best to smooth things over without trying to reach into the higher echelons of power...
...diseases known to humanity -- tuberculosis, syphilis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis and even bubonic plague -- into mere inconveniences that if caught in time could be cured with pills or shots. Like many who went through medical school in the 1960s, Dr. Bernard Fields, a Harvard microbiologist, remembers being told, "Don't bother going into infectious diseases." It was a declining specialty, his mentors advised -- better to concentrate on real problems like cancer and heart disease...
...also knew the proper procedure for dealing with a deadly spill: rub every surface with bleach, sterilize all instruments that have been exposed, then wipe everything down again with alcohol. There was just one rule he failed to follow. Having decided the danger was over, he didn't bother to report the accident, and a few days later he left town to visit an old friend in Boston...