Word: bothers
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...wrote off as unenforceable more than $2.5 billion in taxes owed by 668,018 taxpayers. In 1998, on the other hand, only 98 taxpayers had their cases written off. The IRS has decided that all of these cases are too small to bother pursuing given the cuts in the IRS budget, though some of them involve tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. Since 1992, the number of audits have fallen by as much as two-thirds and the seizure of property to pay for back taxes by as much as 99 percent...
...appreciation of U.S. stocks in the '90s, a measurably closer correlation between U.S. and international stocks on the whole, and an important study last year showing that correlations are tightest in bear markets--meaning that diversification doesn't insulate you much just when you need it most. So why bother...
...doesn't bother other burakumin that Nonaka doesn't want to be a poster-boy for their cause. After all, they haven't been his staunchest supporters, either. Burakumin have traditionally backed socialist and communist parties, while the conservative Nonaka staked his early career on chipping away at the communists' grip on power in Kyoto. "If he becomes Prime Minister," says Kanto, "it won't really change much for us. It would be more difficult for him to do things for us, because at the top, he would have to deal with too many other issues...
...like a sneak attack," said one of the Grille patrons carded by investigators. "The people at the other end of the table walked away, and they didn't seem to bother them. I guess I was just at the wrong...
...sound of revelation is everywhere: in living rooms where investment clubs meet, the ones that still bother to meet, anyway; on the cell phones of the flat-busted, way-cool crowd, which stopped day trading months ago; and in the hallways of mutual-fund companies where hotshots are trying to make sense of something they were never programmed to comprehend. So this is a bear market, they sigh...