Word: bothered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Economy, Finance and Industry, replacing Hervé Gaymard who resigned in a scandal over subsidized housing. Breton's annual salary drops to €140,000 from €1.4 million. He also waived a €2.3 million severance package and had to resign all his French directorships. Why bother? Friends say he has political aspirations and is close to Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Some worry about a potential conflict of interest, as the Ministry oversees the telecommunications industry. There is, though, a silver lining: the 11,000 France Télécom shares Breton got in 2002 on joining...
...while walking in Cambridge has been a bother, I’ve recently gotten off the sidewalk and onto the road. There I’ve discovered the real demons: Boston drivers...
...There are people with long hair and nose rings and eye pierce rings; sometimes that feels threatening to some people. But it doesn’t bother some people,” Pasquarello said. “Relatively speaking, Harvard Square is very safe—it really does not appear to be anything over and above what you would normally expect in an area of high visibility with large groups of people that congregate...
...choose answer (D), a combination of all of the above. Football player, you bother me. What bothers me more, I’m guilty by association. What bothers me even more is you’ve dragged your friends’ names through the dirt. You keep the stigma surrounding the phrase “Harvard Football” alive...
...Spear of Destiny,” presumably the lance that pierced Jesus’ side during his crucifixion, here a mystical talisman that “Corinthians 17” predicts will usher in the rein of Mammon, son of Lucifer. (Don’t bother looking it up; it only exists, according to the film, in the version of the Bible found in Hell.) Such unabashedly bogus uses of Christian jargon pepper the movie: the gift of prophecy becomes the hottest new tool in forensics and criminology; while the plague imagery from Exodus becomes not a warning to repent...