Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what market harm is at stake? Blackmun suggests that writers and producers may lose some of their constitutionally-sanctioned incentive to create if VCR use goes unfettered. But the concerns over reproduction of the tapes center largely around fears of top producers--how many people outside of lowa would bother to tape the morning farm report on the local news? Given the multimillion that many of these top producers make, it can hardly be that Larry Hagman of al. will ditch Dallas because some people might pass over the commercials or skip the rerun syndication because the tapes are already...
Public-housing authorities are told to provide decent housing and then are denied the means to effect acceptable solutions [Feb. 13]. Meanwhile, social and political apathy at all levels of government and society provoke an attitude of "Don't bother us with the facts; just house the people." The result: today's public-housing enigma. Local public-housing authorities still represent the best approach to addressing housing issues. They remain the only entity in the residential field whose sole objective is the provision of shelter, not the accumulation of profit...
...modern member of the Horse Guards, plus a scrawled, emblematic castle. But what are they doing in the green space that is Morley's sign for paradise? The probable answer is that they are there because they are in the artist; the combinations of aggro-and-bother with glimpses of lush relaxation and childhood escape epitomize his own conflicts. When painting "straight" landscape, Morley is less convincing, producing huge pictures of wobbly livestock under a crude Constable sky. At such moments he reminds one that there is not only good art and bad art but bad "bad painting...
Another major theory predicts a diametrically opposite effect. According to the underdog theory, a large portion of the electorate, believing that victory is assured, simply don't bother to vote. Supporters of this theory also contend that because people naturally sympathize with the underdog, voters may cast their ballots out of pity for, rather than in support of, a candidate...
...work in his coffee and a stack of term papers at least twelve inches high. They had to be returned within a few hours. Anyone who watched this grader whip through several ten page papers at the rate of two to five minutes each would have wondered, "Why bother?" Like the person in your photograph this "instructor" did his work in circumstances marked by the distraction of excited talk and loud laughter and disruptive groans, punctuated by the clatter of dishes. I suppose those of us who pay $15,000 a year for a Harvard undergraduate degree can at least...