Word: bothered
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...technically owned by local and regional governments. With operating budgets provided primarily by local treasuries, there is little impetus for the generals to run the league as a business. Players' salaries are generally minimal and ticket prices are cheap (70 to $6), although fans of many teams don't bother paying when they can climb over fences of poorly secured pitches. But as long as the generals can entertain friends and snack on fried tofu (a spectator favorite) during matches, why should they change anything? Attendance has been flat, from about 700,000 in 1994 to 750,000 today. Longtime...
...union. As it turns out, that's harder than getting hitched. Though residency isn't required for a civil union, it is to get out of one. That's a six months' stay in Vermont for at least one partner. But couples in the throes of marital bliss rarely bother to read the fine print...
...when it suited him, used her as a cipher. His famous Letters from a Father to His Daughter, penned in prison, were never sent to her. Instead, he kept them in his cell waiting for a publisher. She was 20 when they were published in 1938. She didn't bother to read them until years later...
...aesthetic parents, brothers and sometimes offspring. But genius tends to be unpredictable, and a puzzling thing about Vermeer is that artistically he had no real progeny and no certain parentage. Nobody knows who taught him to paint, and his influence on younger Delft artists is too slight to bother with. He did no teaching, and no one imitated him. Moreover, most of the other Delft painters in his time (with one striking exception) pale by comparison with...
...sense of when stock values are more or less compelling. And, for many reasons, I believe stocks are worth buying again. A host of hopeful signs has popped into view, and the plain truth is that if you don't buy stocks when they're down, you shouldn't bother at all. With the NASDAQ up 32% in 15 days, odds are the market will retrace a bit, or a bunch. But if you stay diversified with proved companies, near-term losses don't matter. Five to 10 years should be a minimum holding period...