Word: bothered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plaintiffs' lawyers say, that it is often impossible to get anything done there. Exhibit A is Congress's failure to act on the Patients' Bill of Rights before it fled Washington for its summer recess. Ask Scruggs if trial lawyers are trying to run America, and he doesn't bother to deny it. "Somebody's got to do it," he says, laughing...
...cost of downloading titles was what made previous e-books prohibitively expensive. Why bother reading texts electronically if you're going to have to pay full price for each title you input? Thankfully, publishers' attitudes toward e-books have undergone a sea change. SoftBook says it will launch the new model with a shelfful of titles at 25% to 50% off. Its sister company, RocketBook, is also relaunching, with a monochrome device that will cost nothing as long as you pay $20 a month for a set number of downloads. If you're a voracious reader who doesn't care...
...holds sway. Take the case of Aki Komikado, an unassuming sales-and-marketing employee who invented the Tamagotchi digital pet in 1996. The toy craze earned her employer, Bandai, $350 million, but Komikado didn't get a pay raise or a big bonus, and it doesn't seem to bother her. "Why should I get lots of money?" says Komikado, 32. "The real effort was made by the developers who made our product successful...
...common ground about her opinions regarding homosexuality. We could not. By now I think most people reading this have had some exposure to the controversy over her use of such terms as "biological error," "dysfunction" and "disorder" to describe lesbians and gays. Here's why such descriptive words bother us so much...
...Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The two halves were practically identical. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, a unique and interesting individual who has unfortunately been quarantined from the presidential debates, summed up the political predicament perfectly. In an interview last week, Nader was asked if it would bother him that his presence in the presidential race helped to elect George W. Bush. He responded, "Not at all. I mean, you're dealing with Democratic do-littles and Republican do-nothings. And that's just not enough for the American people...