Word: botherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the comment that Bergen is often referred to as an overly domineering and pushy coach. Caulkins tacitly agrees, saying "Coach Bergen did have a lot of control over our lives in and out of the pool, but I was at the age where it didn't bother me too much. Besides, it all paid off because everyone swam fast under...
...bother you that some schools are primarily for ambitious high schoolers and others for delinquent collegians: the same levelling forces thrive everywhere, forces that can make the most mature college senior behave like a third-grader...
...They believe it is impossible to pursue "pure" research and develop commercial products at the same time. There is even talk that his publicized involvement with Genentech may have cost him a Nobel Prize. But the carping, probably motivated at least in part by jealousy, does not seem to bother Boyer too much. Says he: "If you have a strong conviction that what you're doing is right, then you can stand up against a lot of criticism...
...seating didn't really bother me that day until the white section up front was almost full and the black section was full. Now, if the driver took on more passengers than got off, it meant that some of the newcomers would have to stand. And if they were white the driver was going to have to ask a black passenger in no man's land to move so that a white passenger could sit down...
...thing that seems to bother Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) the most is dogmatic ideology. Tsongas always frowns at an easy answer, no matter which end of the political spectrum it comes from. He picks apart partisan politics with the passion of an inspired poly-sci professor, noting casually that "a lot of this will be cleared up in my upcoming book." But Tsongas has already sounded his bugle for the charge of "humanistic realism," a leaner, meaner brand of liberalism he thinks will work in the 1980s. With his wordy solutions and academic jargon, Tsongas has, whether...