Word: bothers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...left with a troubling question. Which is worse: the secrets we don't know about or the open secrets that the government doesn't bother to hide...
...even bother to bother candidates about substance? Because it is, nominally, what elections are all about. The candidates owe us answers, whether they want to give them or not. At the very least, you can learn a lot from the character of their evasions-how their minds work, how much they know, what their basic principles are. Occasionally, they might even say something courageous. And very occasionally, there comes an election where the ability to be courageous, to tell the public things it may not want to hear, is the most important quality we need in a leader. I suspect...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall' - that could be perceived as provocative. Things were breaking and were in a lot of flux. At the time some people argued, why stick your finger in [Gorbachev's] nose? But knowing Ronald Reagan as I did, I would have said don't bother. He was going to express his feelings...
...style of the conservatives seems to be working. Leading Socialist candidates are already talking more about how they'll regroup and reform their party in opposition than about the possibility of victory. And the shrill tone of the UMP campaigning also appears designed to counter any tendency to not bother to vote this time among Sarkozy supporters lulled by his commanding victory in the Presidential race. Although projections indicate France won't equal the stunning 84% participation rate in the Presidential poll, abstention should drop below the 30% barrier for the first time in a legislative election since...
...completely lost faith in the office,” Mazur says. “I didn’t bother to contact them with anything anymore. It was sort of discouraging to be turned down flatly...