Word: trivial
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...government's entitlement system, rewrite the nation's tax code, reform its legal system, revolutionize worker training and health care; he would amend the constitution to define marriage and insert Washington into the nation's local schools as never before. In May, the administration celebrated one of its most trivial, and typical, programs - the Department of Transportation's "Click It or Ticket," which mobilizes the federal government to make sure that every driver in the country...is wearing his seatbelt...
...years. Koizumi defends the visits as a chance to pray and show respect for Japan's war dead. But Koizumi's appearances at the shrine have infuriated the Chinese and South Koreans, who view it as a symbol of Japan's militarist past. "It may seem like such a trivial thing, but Yasukuni has ballooned into a larger than life issue," says Peter Beck, director of the North East Asia Project at the International Crisis Group in Seoul. "It has become the single biggest stumbling block to better relations in the region...
...though every idea can be contested even if the debates often seem to become silly. But even when we’re far removed from the gates of Harvard Yard, we must continue to challenge, to question, and to explore everything. After all, to critically consider even the trivial proves that we are fully engaged with the world...
...didn’t like the president’s “style,” as though they objected mainly to his tailoring or as though fey humanists were not used to the rough and tumble argumentation supposedly standard among economists. But basic human virtues are not trivial things. Any corporate CEO who regularly breaches the social and moral demands of leadership will eventually lose the power to lead. Privacy in a search process is important, but not at the expense of due diligence. Corporations fear that press scrutiny of their CEO searches will scare off good candidates...
...proposed transformation of the University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) into the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, creating a more impressive name and promising a more beefy complement of faculty and resources. The move does the improbable; it is at once trivial and menacing for the overwhelming majority of Harvard undergraduates.If approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this fall, the change will create a “school within a school,” which would remain part of FAS. Undergraduates would retain their affiliation with Harvard College. Indeed...