Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This "cash-interest phenomenon" may sound trivial, but it's a link to a whole other revolution in finance: the dissolution of the government monopoly on money. After all, if some small bank in Luxembourg or Belize is willing to pay you more interest on your digital cash, who are you to argue? As long as the bank's digits are widely accepted, there is no need to stick with government-issued numbers. Government money will still exist, but so will dozens of other currencies, each tailored to a specific need and endlessly convertible and exchangeable. The best money...
...company. But Gates' gray suits were gunning for the professor even before they unearthed the smoking E-mail. They argued from the start that Judge Jackson had no right to give such power to an outside adviser, especially one they hadn't vetted. Jackson dismissed their complaints as "trivial" and "defamatory," but the appeals court found them more credible and in February ordered Lessig to stop working until the matter could be argued in court...
...apparent that DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen had made an ambitious--and risky--choice when they decided that their first animated feature, The Prince of Egypt, would be a retelling of the story of Moses. "You can't deal with this like some trivial fairy tale," Geffen admonished Katzenberg, who was chairman of the Disney studio during the making of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lion King. Prince of Egypt, which will open Dec. 18, has to entertain, but it must also have a grandeur befitting its subject matter...
...with the tank showed us another face, so to speak, of the camera and gave us an instance in which the image did not cut humanity down to size but elevated and affirmed it, serving as an instrument for democracy and justice. Instead of making the lofty trivial, as it so often seems to do, the image made the passing eternal and assisted in the resistance of an airbrushed history written by the winners. Technology, which can so often implement violence or oppression, can also give a nobody a voice and play havoc with power's vertical divisions by making...
...from expanding women's rights, was a disaster for civil liberties. That Hill, an articulate graduate of the Yale Law School, could find no job-preserving way to communicate to her employer her discomfort with mild off-color banter strained credulity. That Thomas could be publicly grilled about trivial lunchtime conversations that occurred 10 years earlier was an outrage worthy of Stalinist Russia...