Word: trivial
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...toward alcohol control. For example, would alcohol counselors be criminally negligent if they did not report instances of underage possession? For one thing, their knowledge of possession is necessarily post facto in most cases. Furthermore, no priests or psychiatrists have ever been held accountable for similar admissions of such trivial wrongdoing by their 'clients...
Lyle has been painting a picture of Jose and Kitty as monsters who ran their sons' lives in the tiniest detail, crushing any aspirations to independence by handing out cruel punishments for trivial offenses. Much worse, he testified, when he was seven, Jose "would be in the bathroom, and he'd put me on my knees. He'd guide me in all my movements, and I'd have oral sex with him." Also, "he used objects, a toothbrush, some sort of utensil brush . . . he'd take my pants off, lay me on the bed. He'd have a tube...
...differences are hardly trivial. Clinton's plan is far more complex, largely because it aims at a more thorough overhaul of the whole system. For instance, it would even contain a mechanism enabling the government to determine how many general practitioners and how many specialists medical schools train. Though Clinton and Magaziner insist they rely on carrots far more than sticks, critics still maintain the plan is too regulatory. Though all the leading plans aim to set up large risk pools of insurers and insured, the Clinton scheme would make these "alliances" mandatory. And though all are supposed to hold...
...disintegrating agricultural system would be malnutrition -- and in fact, some researchers are beginning to find preliminary evidence of undernourishment in children's skeletons from the late Classic period. Given all the stresses on Maya society, says Culbert, what ultimately sent it over the edge "could have been < something totally trivial -- two bad hurricane seasons, say, or a crazy king. An enormously strained system like this could have been pushed over in a million ways...
Somalia is not the only country to which U.S. forces are being dispatched -- President Clinton also announced last week that he would send 300 soldiers to precariously positioned Macedonia, the former Yugoslav republic, to serve as a deterrent against a Serbian invasion. While the small contingent seemed trivial, Secretary of State Warren Christopher insisted the deployment of troops to Macedonia showed that "our moral authority is intact...