Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Paris and NATO's General Lauris Norstad that they were thinking of asking Spain for military installations of unspecified type. (Strauss apparently did not bother to mention that he had already opened discussion of the matter with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando María Castiella y Maíz two months earlier, and he never did get around to telling the other eleven NATO members.) From all three allies and from Norstad came the same advice: Strauss should forget about Spain and try to get the bases he needed from NATO nations. Undeterred, Strauss sent off a military mission...
...thirds of Princeton's applicants were deemed perfectly capable of Princeton work. But only one-third could be admitted, and Princeton skimmed the richest cream. Says Director of Admission C. William Edwards: "The bottom one-third of the applicants of ten years ago wouldn't even bother to apply...
Rights of Parents. When it came time for the defense, the oilmen did not even bother to present a formal defense. Said Jersey Standard Lawyer Hugh Cox: Humble and Jersey had indeed discussed prices. "But where's the price fixing in that? Jersey Standard is a holding company-it has no prices. No court has held that parents can't discuss and agree on prices. A decision that this was in violation of the law would affect hundreds and perhaps thousands of firms. A drastic reorganization of the structure of business would result." The lawyers...
...materials will have to be hauled underground by flatcar, operations coordinated on a split-second schedule with the movement of trains into and out of the terminal. Says Wolfson: "Problems are normal on my job. There will be just a few more here, but it doesn't bother us." Wolfson's philosophical calm conceals a genuine, almost intellectual excitement about construction. The son of a Cincinnati pantsmaker, he majored in philosophy and political science at the University of Cincinnati, went to Florida after graduation in 1924 to cash in on the Florida land boom. He and a partner...
...commercial financing that only in recent years has become completely respectable. When banks lend money to firms, they do so on the basis of assets and good credit standing, a yardstick that often rules out loans to small or struggling businesses. Heller, on the other hand, does not bother himself about the borrower's credit, takes on firms with chronic management or financial ills as readily as sound companies that have fallen on hard times. Reason: he accepts a company's accounts receivable (i.e., money owed it) as collateral, thus putting his faith in the credit...