Word: trivialize
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...habits. She had said as much, in the kind of language that one of Oscar Wilde's more waspish characters might have used. In a famous 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, she insisted that the "Clinton Administration has assiduously avoided implementing an agenda" that "separates the important from the trivial." In an interview with the New York Times just before the election, she dismissed Clinton's affection for peacekeeping by stating that "we don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten." The Bush team, says Scowcroft, had a sense that "if the Clinton Administration...
...should be thrown out on procedural grounds. If the court doesn't bite, they plan to argue that the first charge against Roh?that he voiced support for the Uri Party in the upcoming National Assembly election, even though he's required to be neutral as President?was trivial, and that there is no basis in constitutional law for the other two charges of economic mismanagement and corruption among his aides...
Bacanovic was on vacation in Florida on Dec. 27, but Douglas Faneuil, his assistant, relayed the message from Waksal to him, prompting Bacanovic, according to Faneuil, to exclaim, "Oh, my God, get Martha on the phone!" The amount of money at stake was trivial to someone as wealthy as Stewart, who had previously sold 20% of her ImClone holdings. Yet Martha is famously tightfisted and, as testimony showed, an extremely demanding client. She was traveling to a resort in Mexico with her friend Mariana Pasternak. But through a series of phone calls she learned what Waksal...
...with the coming of last spring. And Janet’s bare breast will certainly be forgotten by the American consciousness soon enough. But our national obsession with these frivolous sexual encounters is doing more harm than we realize. And while we continue to focus our attention on the trivial and the meaningless, we conveniently distract ourselves from things that might really matter...
...case, God had abruptly taken his fortune, his family and his health. While Job’s friends insisted that he must have done something to anger the deity, the truth is that there was nothing. God was acting arbitrarily, for a few celestial pennies in a trivial bet with Satan...