Word: bothered
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Meanwhile, GM is playing catch-up in the hot market for hybrids because it has been losing sales to Toyota and Honda. The Japanese companies began developing hybrids in the '90s, when Detroit scoffed at the technology as economically unviable. "GM's reasoning with hybrids was, Why bother when trucks are selling?" says Matheson. Toyota put hybrids on the market even when the company knew they wouldn't make money right away. "Detroit doesn't think that way," Matheson says. Both GM and Ford are coming to market with their first hybrid models, while Toyota and Honda are already selling...
...crushed; he needs mature, male wisdom to caulk his broken heart. In what is surely their last conversation, he tells her: "Oh, how you tried / To cut me down to sigh-yize, / Tellin' dirty lie-yies to my friends. / But my own father / Said, 'Give her up, don't bother. / The world isn't coming to an end. He said: 'Walk like a man. Talk like a man. / Walk like a man, my son / No woman's worth crawling on the earth, / So walk like a man, my son.'" This father-son speech teaches the lad that turnabout is fair...
...Harry. I?m getting quite fond of Emma Watson as Harry?s pal Hermione. Only Rupert Grint?s Ron Weasley, the whiny ginger kid who represents the working class at Hogwarts, tries my patience. The film?s one unneeded plot strand concerns an estrangement between Ron and Harry. Why bother sundering them when we know they?ll get back together...
...more training to say the least!) Myth #2: Smart people automatically know how to talk to each other. Because we think we are such bright bulbs, it makes it even harder to have meaningful conversations. We think we already know the answers, so we don’t bother listening to what everyone else has to say. Furthermore, we are so confident of the brilliance of our own points that we don’t bother to collect our thoughts before pontificating ad nauseum. As a result, even well-trained TFs need to take a few minutes at the beginning...
Ultimately, it's that very flexibility--that multiplicity of possible rewards--that makes dreaming big dreams and pursuing big goals worth all the bother. Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. The trick, as any good speculator will tell you, is recognizing the riches when they come your...