Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two forms of debate. Off-topic debate is more familiar to most. It is skin to political debates and stresses eloquence and oratorical skills. On-topic debate, by contrast, is truly the varsity sport of the mind. Comparing it to college bowl is like comparing chess to "Trivial Pursuits...
...American Greetings' Care Bears (about $20), which the company produces in a range of models from sleepy to grumpy. Macy's stores in Northern California expect to sell out their entire population of 50,000 stuffed bears, including mink ones priced at $200. The trendy board game Trivial Pursuit (price: $25) is hard to find in stores, and even sales of Monopoly are up about 10% from last year. Thanks in part to booming sales of G.I. Joe dolls, stodgy Hasbro Industries, which stayed out of the videogame wars, expects to increase its profits by about 60% this...
Carol Monica, manager of the newly-opened Games People Play, agreed that holiday shoppers are more inclined to purchase "whimsical things" than at other times in the year. Monica said the game "Trivial Pursuit," a trivia quiz contest, "has been a $40 hotcake...
...erosion of civil liberties in the U.S.," it measures 17 in. by 34 in. and features black-and-white photographs of U.S. Government buildings (the IRS, FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and of police riot squads and jail cells. Each date is annotated with one or more reminders, trivial as well as grim, of the loss of freedom; few may recall that on Aug. 1, 1973, the Washington Post reported a private investigation launched by the Nixon White House on the Smothers brothers. Can Doublethink T shirts and Big Brother barbecue aprons be far behind...
Rena Leib was the second candidate to reach quota. "It was a pretty good showing for a first time candidate and that feels good," she said yesterday, adding that she hoped the school committee would "focus on setting policy and holding administration to it, rather than wasting time on trivial grievances...