Word: bothered
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...nights burning villages, looting and killing at random. Activists are claiming that these troops have used your company's equipment to dig mass graves and are turning your company's warehouses into torture chambers. Imagine you have heard these things. Suppose they might really be happening. Does your conscience bother...
...Leiber and Stoller weren?t responsible for the Drifters? indenture, they also didn?t bother to force its change. And though the writer-producers? early work had an underdog acerbity, their determination to produce hit after Drifters hit made them cautious with other writers? songs. Mann and Weil had written "Only in America" as a scathing denunciation of civil inequity: "Only in America/ Land of opportunity/ Do they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me." Leiber and Stoller rewrote the lyric as a straightforward, Horatio Alger anthem. The meaning was lost; worse, it was twisted...
...early accolades wouldn't bother the big airlines if only students and grandmothers were flying JetBlue. But the carrier is pulling in business travelers, the industry's most valuable passengers and the source of up to 50% of its profits. "We were starved for an airline like this," says Christopher Hayes, the chief investment officer at Rulison & Co., a financial firm based in Rochester, N.Y. Hayes, who has lately forgone his frequent-flyer perks on JetBlue rival US Airways, has already flown the newcomer 12 times: "It's hard to compare flying JetBlue to other airlines...
Besides, Jordan--despite all his careful brilliance in building the blandly flawless Jordan brand--doesn't care what we think. Friends say that he takes the articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? Because I might get my name on Michael Jordan's refrigerator. He is still Michael Jordan...
...Besides, Jordan--despite all his careful brilliance in building the blandly flawless Jordan brand--doesn't care what we think. Friends say that he takes the articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? Because I might get my name on Michael Jordan's refrigerator. He is still Michael Jordan...