Word: trivialize
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...stones by the trickle of a river that runs through Tanali, a village outside Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province in south-central Afghanistan. Some wear turbans; some do not. A few have long beards; others a few days' growth or none at all. The differences are trivial, though, given what unifies them. This village is their home. And, says Mullah Muramza, a slight, young man gently cradling a small bird in his hands: "Everyone here was with the Taliban...
...about what Ginny would think if she got too emotional or, conversely, if she appeared to be having too much fun. Hilary stopped playing the piano and didn't pick it up again until the spring. Normally well behaved, she began asking permission to do even the most absurdly trivial things, such as riding her bike around the block or flying a kite. One day Hilary forgot to pack her Speedo for her practice with the Monmouth Barracudas, the highly selective regional swim club she belongs to. Scared of her mother's reaction, she soaked her hair in the sink...
...steps we have taken to protect ourselves from terrorism (not counting the military effort to stop it at the source) seem either farcically trivial or farcically excessive. Is there a rational middle ground...
...Department's list is AOL Time Warner, TIME's parent company. Justice confirmed last week that it would follow up on the SEC's investigation into how the company's AOL division accounted for some $270 million in revenue over the past two years. The amount involved is almost trivial in a $38 billion-a-year company, but the implications are not. The agencies are investigating whether AOL executives contrived to misstate advertising revenues to puff up the performance of AOL just as it was closing its merger with Time Warner. AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons has been adamant...
...industry has been trying--and failing--to combat piracy for years. "Copy protection is theoretically impossible," says Marc Andreessen, lead inventor of the Netscape browser and currently chairman of the Web-services firm Loudcloud. "All you need is a piece of software that ignores the restrictions. These things are trivial to break...