Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for this political silence is as much self-absorption as the deceptive media messages that label Asian-Americans as the "model minority." The problem is that many Asian-Americans buy into this message: Why bother voting or running for office--why bother doing anything--when things are this rosy...
...title sequence of the book takes the reader through a tour of Dante's tomb. Schnackenberg's meditation on the poet becomes a lament for the loss of a great poetic tradition. The speaker grieves that "no one will ever bother to cast again" the stunning images he created. The tone becomes less pessimistic as Schnackenberg begins to blur the lines between past and present: "There is a flood remnant...As if the Samaritan woman's water jar/Had been hurled against the wall, and was still dripping...Or it may be only a freshly washed floor/ Whose little lakes...
What President-elect Clinton must do is to appoint Morgenthau as the nation's next drug czar--with only this one responsibility, but with broad authority: follow the bucks. Don't bother him with interdiction...
Well, maybe Mansfield's not, but others have indicated their desire to join my crusade. Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler stated that "[students calling her by her first name] would not bother me at all." Besides, she added, "Leadership must be acknowledged, not claimed, unless you're Hitler...
...Japanese tape recorders. Shortages -- and long lines of shoppers -- have diminished even at state-run food stores since price controls were lifted. With inflation racing ahead at an annual rate of more than 1,000%, most middle-class people cannot afford to buy much. Yet high prices don't bother the newly rich who drive by in Mercedes and BMWs on their way to nightclubs that charge $100 a person to dine and dance...