Word: trivial
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...company immodestly touts as "the most technologically advanced antiaging treatment around": Lancôme's Absolue Premium bx ($132 for 2.6 oz. of the night formula). Alan Meyers, L'Oréal USA's senior vice president of research and development, says, "The real question--and it's not a trivial one--is, Where should we look next to develop new technologies...
...permanent the division of Europe once felt. It wasn't just Budapest, '56 that taught us that - so did Prague '68, when the Soviet army once again reminded those who lived behind the Iron Curtain who was in charge. In the West, the visible costs of division were essentially trivial - a sort of regret that the jumbled spires and steeples of Prague and Krakow would remain the stuff of prints and woodcuts rather than things one saw for oneself - but in the East they were not. Two generations grew up in a climate where their life chances were stunted, where...
...Core had long been threatening education like a gang of Carthaginians invading the Republic. Only in 2002 was it finally pronounced inadequate and in need of replacement. Its model of awkward categories and trivial information had led to a crisis of liberal education at the College, and so a review process began. Four years down the road, there is a feeling of déjà vu; we are left where we started and signs of stagnation abound. The President that started the review was ousted, but not before he ousted the Dean that spearheaded the effort. The faculty still...
...unwise. From renovations of student space to increased investment in peer advising, students have secured big gains in recent years. But that depends entirely on the continued flow of cash. For example, the wages of a dean of advising, a fun czar, and 180 peer advisors are not trivial costs, but they must not be cut. Knowles, the next president, and the next dean of the Faculty—all of whom control the College’s budget and have a considerable amount of additional money at their disposal—should recognize the importance of these student initiatives...
...Boys and Girls in America†is an upbeat soundtrack for getting in trouble, about getting in trouble. By turning a poetic eye on subjects normally seen as low or trivial, The Hold Steady has created a document of what it’s like to be young and stupid in America. By setting this poetry to incongruously positive pub-rock, they have made it essential listening...