Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commonly it fails to educate. By almost every measure, the nation's schools are mired in mediocrity -- and most Americans know it. Whether it is an inner- city high school with as many security checkpoints as a Third World airport, or a suburban middle school where only "geeks" bother to do their homework, the school too often has become a place in which to serve time rather than to learn. The results are grimly apparent: clerks at fast-food restaurants who need computerized cash registers to show them how to make change; Americans who can drive but cannot read...
ANOTHER YOU. A congenital liar (Gene Wilder) and his con man friend (Richard Pryor) get involved in an elaborate insurance scam. This comedy is complicated too -- but a big why-bother. By now these two gifted farceurs are doing it from memory, not from inspiration. The parts keep moving long after the machine is turned...
...immediate question might be, Why bother? This summer's smash, with $120 million in its first three weeks, is the mucho macho Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But in Hollywood, Armageddon comes every summer. Last year five burly adventures -- Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Another 48 HRS. -- grossed a robust, cumulative half billion. And Batman, good man vs. evil man, was the big warm-weather hit of 1989. Saving the world is man's work, of course. (Blowing it up is too, but that just proves how powerful guys are.) It's men who face...
...service certainly could soothe a sore spot. American physicians are notoriously hard to reach, leaving thousands of patients frustrated by their inability to get answers to basic medical questions. In addition, asserts Dr. Thomas Kovachevich, 49, founder of Doctors by Phone, patients often hesitate to bother their busy doctors with problems that seem too trivial or embarrassing. Kovachevich, an adjunct assistant professor of family medicine at the Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center, points to a class of relatively simple medical queries that can be addressed quickly and effectively over the telephone. These range from deciding which specialist to consult to interpreting...
...chicken and unlimited Pepsi, tea and coffee. Yeltsin's bodyguards, Makarov pistols dangling in shoulder holsters, bantered with officials and reporters in the aisles. The Soviet reporters passed around the vodka and caught up on sleep. The phone system is so bad that Russian reporters working domestically don't bother to write on laptop computers; they can't transmit stories back to their editors anyway. One writer in Yeltsin's press corps was reduced to dictating his story over the radiophone of a motorcade police car. Since most of the accompanying Soviet journalists were sympathetic to Yeltsin, coverage...