Word: trivializations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...L.B.J. was unmistakably, with all his faults, a grownup man; his downfall--brought on when his Great Society got lost in the war he would not or could not escape--had a tragic size and weight. Clinton remains a very bright End of History boy-man. There is something trivial and unnecessary in his travails, and even if they lead to his downfall, they will seem sordidly silly...
Seed has begun to remind pundits and editorial writers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who provokes strong feelings by shattering the taboo against physician-assisted suicide. The technical challenge involved in ending a human life is trivial, however. Cloning is another matter. Ian Wilmut, the embryologist who produced Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, says there are "serious safety issues" involved in cloning a human. In his experiments with animals, a quarter of his lambs died within a few days of birth. Ultimately, it took 277 attempts to produce Dolly. "Should we really consider or allow experiments of this...
Jackson said that Microsoft's allegations that Lessig was biased against the company were "trivial" and said that the company might have "incurred sanctions" had the accusations been made in open court...
...bases given for those accusa- tions are both trivial and...defamatory, and the Court finds that they were not made in good faith," the ruling said...
...been stormy at the best of times. But it took another turn for the worse Wednesday night when Jackson fired off a scathing written response to the software giant's claim that the court-appointed "special master," Lawrence Lessig, was biased. "The bases given for those accusations are both trivial and altogether nonprobitive," Jackson wrote. "They are, therefore, defamatory and the court finds that they were not made in good faith. Had they been made in a more formal manner, they might well have incurred sanctions...