Word: bothered
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Negotiators for the players and owners of major league teams resumed their discussions for two hours in New York, but why bother? Neither side budged on the owners' nettlesome salary cap idea. But the people who urged the parties to get together one last time -- politicians -- got the sides to agree to meet next week with federal mediators. Also on baseball watchers' minds today: With 52 days (or 669 unplayed games) left in the season, will the World Series be nixed for the first time since...
...neck for a pulse. Finding none, they carry her over to the pile of corpses, which they will douse in chlorine to disinfect them. But as they put her down, her head turns. Quickly they take her back to the tent where they are treating victims, but do not bother to set up an IV. She is too sick to save, the workers explained. "But she's moving," says one, "so you can't just leave her with the dead...
...that doesn't seem to bother the Sears clothing chain, which is featuring the Nobel Prize-winning chemist in a television commercial to air nationally over the next few months...
...point, Councillor Frank Duehay askedMullin if it would "bother" him if Marshall hadindeed lied in order to get at 121A agreement backin September...
Still, the question remains: If sanctions are so typically ineffective, why bother? There are two reasons. First, as Harvard's Richard Pipes says, sanctions "communicate a sense of moral outrage." Moreover, he argues, "one only has to consider what happens when aggression is not followed by some kind of punitive measures; not to react in such instances is silently to condone it." Pipes and others contend that Moscow was emboldened to invade Afghanistan in 1979 (which provoked a series of ineffectual Western sanctions) partly because the West did little but huff when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia...