Word: trivialize
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...other schools, who may choose to use our model to shape their own Interfaith Awareness Weeks,” Syed said. “Over the years, we’ve acquired the resources and manpower to make this a national approach.”A (NON)TRIVIAL PURSUITInterfaith Awareness Week concluded with teams gathering in the Adams Lower Common Room to test attendees’ knowledge of other religious faiths in the form of a team trivia contest. Prior to the event, each co-sponsoring group submitted 10 questions concerning the major beliefs, people, holidays, and scriptures of their...
...transaction-tax cut that got the market climbing again. "The tax drop is an important signal of the government's resolve to salvage the market," says Dong Tao, chief regional economist at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. "The financial benefit investors are getting from the new policy is trivial, but the reassurance from the government...
...cheese or Al Gore sighing or George H.W. Bush checking his watch or Michael Dukakis looking dorky in a tank. "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial," he wrote...
...These are not trivial matters; Kushner presented views on philosophy, literature and history, challenging us to connect them in a difficult way,” he said...
...aspiration got lost in the Madman's House because of a long-running but apparently trivial dispute over a name. Macedonia, a former constituent republic of Yugoslavia, had expected to be invited to join NATO alongside Albania and Croatia, another successor state to Communist Yugoslavia. But Macedonia's southern neighbor Greece perceives the name "Macedonia" as a threatened territorial claim on its own northernmost province, which is also called Macedonia. Right up to the wire, some NATO delegates remained optimistic about a solution for the country, which Greece still refers to as the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, or, more...