Word: bothered
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...Reporting on several students who think it’s just great to illegally take drugs not prescribed to them while burying a mild warning from a doctor interviewed via e-mail gives readers a very one-sided picture of the issue. The article doesn’t even bother to explain how these drugs work beyond “stimulating the nervous system” or to find out what possible harmful effects might...
...that allies Bush and Howard are free traders, and that the relationship between the two countries has rarely been better. Yet the enormous economic and political disparities between the two countries prompts questions about what kind of deal could benefit both - or indeed whether the two parties should even bother to meet at the table. America's population is 15 times the size of Australia's. Given their scale and reach, American companies - like Time Warner, parent of the company that publishes Time - enjoy relatively easy access to markets, particularly in open economies like Australia's. In general...
...really care too much what I wear, and I'm sure it would be criticized and my hair and everything else ... It just doesn't bother me that much." JUDITH STEINBERG DEAN, wife of Democratic candidate Howard Dean, in an interview with Diane Sawyer...
...both parties, [and] the special interests don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people," Vermont's then governor Howard Dean said on an obscure Canadian public-affairs program. The caucuses can stretch on all night, Dean noted, and he expressed wonderment that average people would even bother with them: "I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world...
Conflict is endemic in a relationship, Gottman says, but adds--with peculiar precision--that "only 31% of conflicts get resolved over the course of a marriage. The other 69% are perpetual, unsolvable problems." His insight: don't bother trying to fix the unfixable. Spend your energy on selecting a mate with whom you can manage those inevitable annoyances, then learn how to manage them. To admit some problems can't be solved is the first step toward finding a larger solution. Says Gottman: "We try to build up the couple's friendship, their ability to repair conflict and to deal...