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Long hours spent at sporting events keeping statistics, most weekends devoted to job responsibilities, weary bus rides to places such as Hamilton, N.Y., and Philadelphia, publishing weekly press releases, keeping track of all team's statistics, answering pesky journalists' questions about the most trivial of facts and providing materials for the press at Harvard athletic events are just routine parts...
...come-on is trivial over the long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds, the lowest-yielding animals...
...same roommate remembers matching wits with Granieri at Trivial Pursuit during exam period. Granieri answered all the questions correctly. "The first game, I never got a turn," says Miller...
...next six years. In 1983 Texas spent $288 million on prison construction and operation. By last year the figure was $500 million. Yet the system is still so crowded that Texas has already closed its prison doors to new inmates six times this year. "Corrections used to be a trivial amount of a state's budget," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a San Francisco-based advocacy group. "Now states are facing severe choices between more prisons or schools and public services...
...such hot topics as "Geraldo's Compromising Tattoo." The magazine has added a horoscope page and a rundown of the week's soap-opera plots -- two low-rent staples of daily newspapers. Its late-breaking news pages, once a source of knowing industry tidbits, have become splashier and more trivial ("Rating the Oscar Parties: The Best and the Worst"). Cover stories, meanwhile, have kept both eyes on the newsstand: a January story about rock music on TV, for example, had no timely reason for being except to get Elvis Presley's face on the cover...