Word: trivialization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning, the irony of the whole political crisis has been that India's violent lurch toward totalitarian rule has stemmed from the most trivial of cases. Mrs. Gandhi was convicted in June on two charges of electoral abuse during her re-election to Parliament in 1971. The conviction would have disbarred her from Parliament and disqualified her from holding elective office for six years. Specifically, she had been accused of 1) using a key government official to help with her campaign and 2) receiving government-paid help at a political rally from special police provided...
...allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with which you would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid long, slow slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling...
Unlike the Apollo sinps, the Soyuzes lacked onboard computers, advanced inertial guidance systems and backup cooling and heating systems. Almost all activities aboard Soviet spacecraft are controlled from the ground, down to such trivial matters as shutting off lights at bedtime. NASA gives its astronauts almost total autonomy, a policy that paid off well in crises. Some Americans groused openly about the "brute force" character of Soviet engineering. When NASA Administrator Thomas Fletcher learned that Tom Stafford was one of the more vocal grousers, he warned all three astronauts against bad-moutinng a mission that had the blessing...
Several experimental programs, which Ford now wants expanded, have diverted some first offenders to rehabilitation programs before trial. If they meet the program's requirements, they avoid a criminal record. For convicted first offenders, however, some experts now favor at least a token imprisonment for all but the most trivial infractions...
...most standards of political corruption-particularly in India, where bureaucratic malfeasance is rampant -the charges seemed trivial. Both hinge on technicalities. Mrs. Gandhi testified that Kapoor resigned on Jan. 14 and began working in her campaign on Feb. 1. The judge ruled that Kapoor's resignation was not valid until it was put in writing on Jan. 25 and that in fact he helped organize her campaign as early as Jan. 7. As for the second charge, Mrs. Gandhi testified that the state's deployment of extra police was necessary for security reasons. The other arrangements, she added...