Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jobs got Mac because it was a small group. Scott and Markkula thought it would keep him out of their hair and he wouldn't bother the Lisa people...
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it: Our civilization is decadent, and our language--so the argument runs--must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument we shape...
...Wife Betty meet Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans), and Kissinger exchanges greetings with Krystle's nemesis, Alexis (Joan Collins). Will Blake charm Jerry into a profitable business deal? Will the scheming Alexis wrap Henry around her little finger? Or vice versa. Don't bother to tune in for the following episode. It was a one-shot deal for the former White House thespians...
...search for emotion. After The Game, looking as woeful as if Brazil had defaulted on its notes, he said, "It took me years to get over being really depressed when Yale lost." His voice broke for a moment. "But I managed it. I'm not letting it bother me." -By John Skow
That fact didn't used to bother the aquamen, though. Even as teams geared to knock off the powerful Harvard squad, the Crimson responded with clutch victories. In 10 years, Harvard has now dropped just five dual meets, including the last...