Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspiring the energy that spanned the American continent. It multiplies the wealth, sharpens the wits, creates the nervous dynamism that is called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with the instinct for the jugular, the predatory businessman who exults in crushing rivals...
...later this spring. Now- a new battle is shaping up over the North Slope's other treasure: natural gas. Corporations, environmentalists and politicians in the U.S. and Canada have begun jostling for position on the question of how best to transport the gas to market -or whether to bother...
...students from disadvantaged backgrounds who, in many cases, are not informed about the criteria for admission to a place like Harvard. Many times students mistake large colleges' interviewing procedures and willingness to waive application fees as an early sign that they will be admitted. So they don't bother to apply to any back-up schools and after the rejections come they're left with nowhere to go. When we identify such a case, the student is asked if it would be all right for us to forward his name to another school. So far 92 students have asked that...
...wasn't scared until right before I was to race and I watched the other drivers drive through the course all out," Wetzel said. "As a spectator the speed at which they raced around the curves didn't bother me. As a participant, it scared the pants...
Eventually, I realized that besides quick change-making and drink-passing, a good coke-man should know when to yell; the loud sales pitch disturbs the box-seat spectators but doesn't bother the grandstand fans. A good vendor never climbs steps either, unless four or five definite sales are waiting. Only the newcomer listens to the kids who yell "How much?" when 35 cents is emblazoned all over...