Word: trivializations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trivial victory, but Imelda watchers were already keeping score in what Manila's press has dubbed the "war of the widows." Aquino had conceded the first point by reversing her ban on Marcos' return after a Swiss judge ruled that the former First Lady must be found guilty in a Philippine court before the government could hope to recoup an estimated $350 million in "ill-gotten wealth" from frozen Marcos accounts in Swiss banks. Aquino also agreed to allow interment of the still unburied body of the late President Marcos in his home province. But Imelda insists on a hero...
Taken one at a time, small gestures can be dismissed as trivial. But taken together, these little things may mean a lot to the students who benefit. At least in some quarters, students are getting noticed...
...world of moral shakedown, all sources -- bored beauty queens who want to be models, models who want to flack for No Excuses jeans -- are unimpeachable, and no sexual charge is too old or trivial to pass up. If the country loses the candidacy of one of the nation's most successful Governors to moral terrorism, the press may yet come to see that there is more to journalism than moving product, no matter how heated the competition. But so far, with only slightly fewer correspondents assigned to the alleged Palm Beach rape case than to the Moscow summit, there seems...
...episodes Auletta recounts -- Tisch's fight to gain control of the CBS board, ABC News president Roone Arledge's battle to keep 20/20 on Thursdays at 10 p.m. -- was once a hot topic in media circles. Today they seem more like questions for a 1980s edition of Trivial Pursuit. In his zest for detail, Auletta trudges dutifully through events that are now just so much TV-industry ephemera...
...sore spot. American physicians are notoriously hard to reach, leaving thousands of patients frustrated by their inability to get answers to basic medical questions. In addition, asserts Dr. Thomas Kovachevich, 49, founder of Doctors by Phone, patients often hesitate to bother their busy doctors with problems that seem too trivial or embarrassing. Kovachevich, an adjunct assistant professor of family medicine at the Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center, points to a class of relatively simple medical queries that can be addressed quickly and effectively over the telephone. These range from deciding which specialist to consult to interpreting blood tests and probing...