Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letting students take one of their four courses without grades has turned out not to be as simple as it sounds. Some of the many difficulties spotted in the last month and a half are trivial: Honors seniors don't have to take finals if they get an honor grade on spring hour exams. Should a "pass" on an hour exam exempt a senior from the final...
...Bowles-Coleman controversy may have seemed trivial to the ghetto parent, but it was not. Like the many. other disputes swirling around the Report, it reflects the study's real methodological problems--problems which fundamentally affect its policy implication...
...French publication. It has been read by practically all the members of the National Assembly and cited by politicians of almost every stripe. De Gaulle himself has not deigned to comment publicly, but he reportedly told a friend that the book was "an irrefutable analysis-but the theory is trivial...
Third Power. The theory is anything but trivial. All of Western Europe, says Servan-Schreiber, 43, is being taken over by American industry, which is better organized, more computerized and far more imaginative than anything the Europeans, including France, can produce. Already, the Americans control 50% of European transistor production, 80% of computer production and large percentages of the Continent's heavy industry and oil. In France, U.S. firms produce 65% of agricultural products and telecommunication equipment, 45% of synthetic rubber. Unless Europe wakes up soon, says Servan-Schreiber, "the third industrial power in the world in 15 years...
...this is bitter and trivial consolation for many professors and students. Both firms and government agencies can afford to be selective about what ideas they choose to adapt to their needs--and how they adapt them. Thus, many professors find themselves whistling into the wind--and a smaller, but more disgruntled bunch must watch their contract research service long-range goals they abhor...