Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senate majority leader Trent Lott, still stung by the pelting he got from his own party for helping President Clinton pass a chemical-weapons treaty earlier this year, didn't bother to wait for negotiators in Japan to finish their work last week before declaring the deal dead. "If they come back and think we're going to go along with what they're doing in Kyoto, they've got another think coming," Lott said. That was by no means a strictly partisan assessment. Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, who backs the deal, publicly urged the Administration to hold off submitting...
...says Socks "is going to be a little upset. The cat needs to have a room of his own. Fortunately, they have a lot to choose from." Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a veterinary behaviorist at Texas A&M, agrees. "The biggest problem you worry about is that the dog can bother the cat around the litter-box area. The cat gets all postured and ready to eliminate and along comes this pest. So a lot of them stop using the litter...
Occasionally you meet a real omnivore who will plunk down $7.50 for anything. But more likely, you as a reader have self-identified as either one or the other of the above. But why bother? To what extent are the movies available to us really bifurcated on such a simple line? "That arty stuff is boring," complains Average Joe Popcorn. "Those action pictures are so senseless," scoffs Elitist Joe Coffeeshop. Neither of these statements are universally true, of course, which brings us back to Henry James. And to vampires...
...pressure bother us in the first half," Delaney-Smith said. "We tried to be quick, we didn't use ball fakes, we used up our dribble--all the things you're not supposed to do against pressure...
...question of God's existence may never bother an agnostic until he starts going to church. Miles writes as if doubt were experienced as a perfect withdrawal on the relevant question, as if we merely voided the topic of God's existence from our heads. We all know that this is not the case. We speak of "nagging doubt" because doubt is often an active force, an uncertainty that occupies our thoughts...