Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson, a tall, lanky scholar with a disarmingly casual manner, responded with dismay. He argued forcefully that many critics did not bother to read all of Sociobiology, which did not junk free will and environmental influences but only modified them. "On the basis of objective evidence," he wrote, "the truth appears to lie somewhere in between, closer to the environmentalist than to the genetic pole...
...kind of vending machine is arriving in supermarkets, but don't bother bringing extra change on your next trip. Nabisco is testing devices that dispense free samples with the pull of a lever. The Nabisco Samplers hand out a small box of a new product like Graham Bites, along with a coupon toward the purchase of a full-size package and a thank-you from a synthesized voice...
...sheer disposability of marriage breeds skepticism. Kasey Geoghegan, 20, a student at the University of Denver and a child of divorced parents, believes nuptial vows have lost their credibility. Says she: "When people get married, ideally it's permanent, but once problems set in, they don't bother to work things...
...written [Spence] a letter on this point," Landes says. "I'll bother Professor Rosovsky with this matter in the fall," referring to new Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky...
...Besides, they're gorgeous! A lot of adults don't like them because when they're married and settled down, they don't think about having action or talking dirty. But teenagers do because of their sexual peak. If songs have curses in them, they're not going to bother kids. Everyone knows swear words by the third grade. My advice to parents is to let your kids grow up and do what they want to do." What burns Lisette is the idea that her music should be censored. "I wouldn't ban classical music," she says magnanimously...