Word: bothers
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Harvard argues that not enough of the community cares about the University's investment policy to bother voting the election of representative members. Walter Mondale could have made the same claim. Harvard argues that it is self-incorporated, and should not be controlled by outside forces. It shouldn't. But there is a difference between handing over control of the $2.3 billion endowment to the community and recognizing formally the true views of that community. If there is a need to invest ethically, as the Corporation obviously feels there is, the advice it receives should be representative of all those...
When local telephone companies ask their customers to choose a long-distance service, many budget-conscious consumers quickly ask for such cut-rate services as MCI and GTE Sprint. But as many as 70% of them never bother to respond. Under current federal communications rules, those customers who do not speak up are automatically assigned to American Telephone and Telegraph, even if they are already using a competing service. MCI Chairman William McGowan, GTE's Theodore Brophy and other AT&T rivals claim that this gives the already dominant company a highly unfair advantage. Last week the Justice Department recommended...
Speech errors, such as slips of the tongue and odd pauses, often reveal lying, Ekman says, but body language provides the richest lode of information because liars usually do not bother to conceal it. When he showed volunteers films of several nursing students, some of whom had been told to lie, those volunteers who saw only soundless, neck-down films of the students were able to identify the liars and truth tellers about 65% of the time. A control group that studied only the faces and heard the words of the nurses got 50% of the answers correct, no better...
...last week Crowell confessed that she had made up the story. Awaiting a hearing that could result in his release this week, Dotson, now 28, found reason to praise his false accuser. Said he: "I just want to thank her for showing that some people's consciences do bother them about things they've done in the past...
...enter the atmosphere. The beams, however, are hard to aim and control. Not to mention the price tag: Researcher Bill Barletta figures this one small part of a defensive system might cost $20 billion. Says he: "If we can't do it for that price, we shouldn't bother proposing...