Word: annoyed
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...present fifteen minutiae. nit-picky as it may be, we just can’t get over the quirks and quibbles that endear and annoy, the peculiarities that sometimes make fm a little too fm. we scrutinize the bags on our shoulders, the linings of our pockets and the merits of those new-fangled low-flow shower heads. if only we could remember to floss twice...
...Self-extinguishing cigarettes are not a new idea. Philip Morris developed the technology in the 1980s, but has only recently decided to begin test-marketing it on some of its less popular brands. Tobacco firms have resisted using the safer cigarettes because they believe they annoy smokers - who have to relight their butts if they take too much time between drags - and cost more to produce. The anti-tobacco lobby, of course, is cheering the news and predicting that it could open the industry to another spate of lawsuits. But, says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, while the measure could...
...revealing outfit that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammys does not bother me [PEOPLE, March 6]. What does annoy me is that you could feed a small country for the price some people pay for those designer dresses. I would rather Lopez had given her money to charity and gone naked. SARA DURBIN Lancaster, Calif...