Word: bothered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what do we do? everyone knows the planet is in bad shape, but most people are resigned to passivity. Changing course, they reason, would require economic sacrifice and provoke stiff resistance from corporations and consumers alike, so why bother? It's easier to ignore the gathering storm clouds and hope the problem magically takes care of itself...
Indeed, companies wouldn't bother calling potential customers unless it was profitable...
...Embracing the campy operatic parody style of the early '60's, Boys makes no pretensions to be anything other than entertaining. But then again, if you are this entertaining, why bother...
...similar treatment. He describes his interests as "geometry, algebra, analysis" and is proud of wearing quadratic reasoning T-shirts every day. When his proctor invites him to a study break, he asks why people would take a break from studying. Several strips have shown Mr. Chu wondering why people bother finding friends in college, much less romance. In an introduction to a female peer, for example, he rudely offers her only the address of his web site. Chu's "misanthropic" tendencies are further evident in past episodes when Mr. Chu traps his white roommate in a box and taunts...
Those fidgety day traders didn't bother waiting for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's second decision in the Microsoft antitrust trial. As the 5 p.m. announcement drew nearer on Monday, the desktop dealers dumped more and more of their investments in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, and by the time Jackson, who four months earlier had found that Microsoft wielded monopoly power, delivered a guilty verdict on two of three counts of abusing that power, they had produced a record 348-point, 7.6 percent plunge...