Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue at stake here is larger than whether the good people of Munich can prevent others half a world away from looking at pictures of sexually misused hamsters. These apparently trivial struggles may in fact be the opening fissures of a historical discontinuity...
WHEN CHRONICLERS OF THIS CHARGED ERA sift through the moments, grand and trivial, that were called turning points in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, they may well conclude that Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. did not, in fact, play the "race card." He didn't have to because in many ways Cochran was the race card--a lawyer who had built a lucrative career representing minority victims of police misconduct. By the time he joined what was to become known as the Dream Team, Cochran, 58, had already won some $45 million in damages and an impressive rate of acquittal...
...MORE WE LEARN ABOUT THE COSmos, the more we realize how trivial we are in this amazingly vast and complex system. In such a universe, which is far beyond human imagination, we are obsessed with our immature and selfish thoughts, destroying and tearing one another apart under various banners. We are nothing but a joke in this universe. ALI PIRAHANCHI Johannesburg, South Africa Via E-mail...
Beyond that, at least one former aide has blasted Rudenstine for getting caught up in even the most trivial of matters, even to the exclusion of broader, more important issues...
...important" interest. NATO is a vital interest. NATO is mixed up in Bosnia, so to defend our vital interest in NATO we have to fight in Bosnia. By this logic, it would make no difference whether Bosnia were an "important" interest or a "somewhat important" or an "utterly trivial" interest; we'd still have to send troops there because of our desire to preserve NATO. Bacon's explanation skips over the really hard question raised by Perry's comment: Is the defense of merely "important" interests worth the lives of American soldiers...