Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACSR would make a serious mistake in not addressing University policy in general and instead examining "overly specific, almost trivial information about eight companies," Michael L. 9be the equivalent of a $14 million program in this country. The Canadian program gives direct subsidies to thousands of low and middle income homeowners to help them slash their fuel bills. The American program of tax incentives benefits only the rich. To take a tax credit, you have to spend money first. Of the less then 10 per cent of Americans who claimed tax credits for conservations purposes, more than 75 per cent...
...room near Heathrow Airport" and pressed on him a copy of Captain William Bligh's Log of H. M.S. Bounty, put out by a firm in Surrey called Genesis. This, and a televi sion program on the making of fine books, gave George the idea of "having these trivial bits of paper dignified in this...
...President Carter's preoccupation with the lives of the Iranian guards was "trivial," then what other things are trivial? Life in general...
...though, the news is often so predictable or so trivial that the smaller news organizations are not terribly aggrieved. Says Don Hewitt, a floor producer for CBS: "Ninety percent of it is hot air, and 10% is news." If that. Perhaps the most valiant effort to make it all sound absorbing was made by CBS Correspondent Harry Reasoner, who observed at the end of a particularly dreary night: "After a while, the fact that you have no surprises gets rather dramatic...
...Degas or Pissarro could consistently perform on a high level. They saw what the French saw; they studied in Paris; some of them even painted the flowers in Monet's garden at Giverny, with the assiduity of students doing the Roman ruins a century before. They were not trivial or maladroit. Yet charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht-man and their colleagues have always seemed to be squeezed uncomfortably between the great Yankee realists like Eakins and Homer in the late 19th century...