Word: trivialize
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...government needs? Second, does the tax minimize the financial loss and behavior distortion of individuals? And third, is the tax burden fairly distributed? The answer to the first question is an unqualified yes. As it is currently implemented, the estate tax earned $24.6 billion in fiscal year 2000--no trivial sum. Regarding the second question, for those Americans who pay the estate tax, the tax burden is not as serious as some of the rhetoric makes it out to be. It is assumed, after all, that inheritors do not rely upon the deaths of relatives and friends as their sole...
...know this now not because I am so wise in the ways of matrimony but because I've been talking to Norman Epstein, a researcher at the University of Maryland who surveyed more than 1,000 married couples to try to understand why they fight. "Something trivial will set off a couple," he explains. "But underlying the fight is a more basic issue: whether the spouses hold the same standards for the relationship...
...collecting race cars or women." Still, the absurdity of his passion hasn't escaped him: "At times I've had an out-of-body experience: I've seen this grown man trading pins on the ground like a kid, and thought, I'm much too serious for anything so trivial." And yet he keeps coming back to score more Olympic pins, the collectibles that started as cardboard identity discs at the first modern Games, in Athens in 1896. For Braun, collecting is a way to make friends, a hobby that crosses social and cultural boundaries. In 1988, on the streets...
...fear of reducing his effectiveness as a consumer advocate. In fact, he was thought of as somewhat apolitical, and the very notion of consumer advocacy was regarded by many on the left (and there were indeed many on the left back then) as an antipolitical elevation of trivial, bourgeois concerns. Seat belts? C'mon, there's a war going...
...structured, but you can expect a more focused perspective this time around. See, over the summer, I've developed a bit of a life philosophy, one that's made me a better person and never fails to provide moral guidance. In the face of even the most trivial obstacles (what should I wear?) or the strongest adversity (what should I wear tomorrow?), one question continues to light my path: "What Would Harry Potter...