Word: mattered
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William Dawes was an hour late again, but that didn't really matter. To the 75 or so people gathered in the Cambridge Common yesterday in celebration of Patriots' Day, the delay was par for the course...
...management to rescue the defense contractor from its financial troubles. And on May 7, shareholders of USX (formerly U.S. Steel) will vote on raider Carl Icahn's proposal to get out of the steel business once and for all. Icahn had threatened an all-out proxy fight if the matter were not put to a vote. Already 18 major proxy battles have been launched so far this year, up from only a handful last year...
SCIENCE: Giant accelerators are probing ever deeper into the subatomic mysteries of matter and energy...
...span miles, researchers have forged a largely coherent model of the universe's basic building blocks. Now they are clamoring for the $7 billion-to-$8 billion superconducting supercollider, a mammoth device that may complete the picture -- or torpedo it. -- Can physicists ever fully understand the nature of matter...
...true, as Columbia University historian Eric Foner asserts, that "there really is a genuine parallel between Lincoln and Gorbachev" ? That "Lincoln's position, like Gorbachev's, was that a union, no matter how it was formed, cannot be abandoned." Why do we praise Lincoln for launching a war to save the Union but denounce Gorbachev for much milder actions...