Word: trivialities
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...vast majority of cases, when Harvard students try to effect change in anything other than student-run organizations, they fail. And to the extent that they do succeed, it is largely—as in the case of preregistration—on issues of circumscribed, if not trivial, import...
Opponents make three broad arguments, the simplest of which concerns radiation. In its just-published position paper on whole-body scanning, the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine estimates that subjects receive between 10-20 millisieverts of radiation per scan - a "non-trivial" dose, especially if the person has regular scans. (Nuclear facility workers are limited to an annual radiation dose of 30-50 mSv.) N.S.W. licensing laws require operators to explain to patients that "persons under the age of 50 years are more at risk of developing cancers as a result of the procedure...
...person's perspective, priorities and motivation. After one experiences armed conflict, petty concerns that once seemed to be of the greatest importance can rightfully turn into mundane annoyances. Soon those brave Americans will come home and begin reshaping their country. Calling on past experiences, they will set aside trivial issues and do what is right for all Americans, not unlike the generation that fought in World War II. J. SCOTT BOWMAN Phoenix, Ariz...
...There might’ve been a trivial raffle, but I don’t even remember since there was nothing too big,” said Michael V. Tucci ’06, formerly of the cheerleading squad. “We never discussed holding three-point contests or anything like that. There’s just a lot of red tape...
...habits. She had said as much, in the kind of language that one of Oscar Wilde's more waspish characters might have used. In a famous 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, she insisted that the "Clinton Administration has assiduously avoided implementing an agenda" that "separates the important from the trivial." In an interview with the New York Times just before the election, she dismissed Clinton's affection for peacekeeping by stating that "we don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten." The Bush team, says Scowcroft, had a sense that "if the Clinton Administration...