Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field. To be effective as missile or warhead zappers, the beams would have to be made neutral, which involves a process of accelerating, aiming and focusing charged particles by electromagnets, then stripping off the charge just before the beams are shot out the end of an orbiting device. Why bother with them then? Primarily because the beams, which work by frying the innards of a missile or warhead with radiation, in principle are more lethal and yield a surer kill than lasers...
WHEN APPLYING to Harvard, it is not unusual to face comments such as: "You'll probably never see any or the professors. They're a'l too interested in research to bother with the students...
...John Paul's actions are part of a strategy leading toward a high- profile identity for priests, brothers, sisters and nuns (in technical usage, nuns are a distinct category of sisters who take solemn vows). Explains one Vatican staff member: "You wonder why a man would bother to take holy orders if he is going to do the same job he could do as a layman." Rome has ordered a study of all U.S. seminaries, and a principal reason for this, says the Vatican source, is to guarantee that these institutions "are not turning out psychiatrists and social workers...
...include no weapons systems, are illusory. For instance, $1 billion in cuts to civilian officials at the Pentagon had already been counted in Stockman's freeze on federal salaries. Weinberger, a cagey operator, warns that deeper trims could wreck arms control by convincing the Soviets that they need not bother to bargain, since Congress will reduce U.S. military strength for them...
...uniformed police officers, the former captain revealed that the victim was originally to have been Malkowski. Piotrowski claimed that he managed to dissuade his superior, saying, "Popieluszko is more dangerous politically." When Wolski said he would have to inform his superiors, the colonel allegedly replied, "Don't bother with superiors. The less they know, the smaller headache they will have." About a month before the crime, said Piotrowski, the colonel called him into his office and allegedly told him, "I don't think I have to add that this is a decision from the highest level...