Word: trivialize
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...Flaming" is another favorite hacker activity. To flame means to speak rapidly or obsessively on a variety of subjects both significant and trivial. Hackers flame by typing opinions, gossip and mad rantings into a computer file reserved as a community bulletin board. Those wanting to know what is on the mind of computerniks all over campus can call up the board on their terminals and read the latest flame. One recent public notice contained a rosy farewell message from the head of C.M.U.'s Computer Science Department, who explained that he was leaving the university...
Although the substance of the "quotation" is trivial, an important matter of principle is involved. The role of the press in a democracy is crucial in sustaining an informed electorate. It is for this reason that the press enjoys certain exceptional rights. But it must not ignore the responsibilities that accompany them. When the public learns, through bitter experience, to doubt the accuracy and honesty of the press, a heavy blow is dealt to democracy and to the social contract upon which it is based, and the foundations of the future freedom of the press are weakened. It seems...
...that student is experiencing successive academic failure or difficulty living within the College's rules of behavior. Most often, however, a far more minor adjustment in a student's circumstances is all that is required to guide the student toward successful degree completion. Whether the circumstances be grave or trivial, however, the Board's purpose remains the same--to assist every student who comes before it to obtain and to gain from a Harvard education...
...Humes is not a free-lance author but a novelist and independent researcher. Attention to detail is of course the foundation of accurate journalism. But these omissions are relatively trivial compared to your distortion of the argument that was advanced. We hope your readers understand that Humes argued that mass anxiety-neurosis affect governments, and that weapons fetishism, sometimes a symptom in the individual anxiety-neurotic is affecting the behavior of the super-powers. We consider accurate understanding of this point to be of such importance that we have published two short pamphlets on the subject. Indeed we consider...
...unyielding apologist, though he called for the resignation of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon within days of the September 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Israeli-supervised camps in Beirut. The other devotion is to his Nixon White House colleagues, on whose behalf he has unabashedly likened Watergate to comparatively trivial scandals that he rechristened Lancegate, Billygate, Franklingate, Rheingate and even, in a term that some might use to describe his own rhetoric once in a while, Doublebillingsgate...