Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lincoln, plop 60 cents on the table and soon you'll be sipping a glass of Bud draft. That's right, for the price of one beer at the Boathouse, you can get a pitcher of beer in Lincoln. Sports bar, how you doing? Don't even bother to tell...
Again, the trick is to agree. "Yale played a great game," you should say, "as they always do once a year. You're so lucky you only have to bother with that one game. We must worry about the ECAC playoffs, the Beanpot and ultimately the NCAA championship. So much hassle...
Yeltsin replied lamely that "I never made a written statement" about the episode, but he did not bother denying the Interior Minister's account of his oral one. At another point he said he had been "joking" in his story to police. Moscow gossips speculated that the man of the people might also be a man of the bottle who had been on his way to bestow the roses -- and perhaps other attentions -- on one of his more ardent female supporters. Said a Soviet journalist: "He started out like Huey Long and he's ending up like Gary Hart...
After the game, I didn't even bother to change out of my cleats in the dugout. I just ran home. For the first time in my life, I thought baseball was the stupidest sport in the world...
...bother making a special effort to diversify the faculty? The issue demands attention because of the special role of education in a democracy. In a society that prides itself on equality of opportunity, many of life's prospects hinge on merit and achievement, which grow out of a sound education. A faculty that reflects the composition of society domonstrates that anyone can attain knowledge and power, that no one sex or ethnic group has a monopoly on the truth...