Word: trivialized
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...survey, patients said they wanted to know about any error that could potentially cause harm, whereas physicians said that they would make exceptions when the harm is trivial or they think a patient might not understand the error or want to know about it. As far as apologies go, both patients and physicians agreed they were a good idea in principle. Doctors, however, were worried that saying "I'm sorry" could imply legal liability...
...expression, the University should not hesitate to send the case to the Administrative Board. Realistically, few vandals will be apprehended, making the need for a sufficiently harsh punishment all the more legitimate. More severe punishments will make clear that the University does not consider the issue of free expression trivial, and will send a message to would-be poster defilers to reevaluate the gravity of their actions...
...just a nine-foot-tall snow erection. Missiles have nothing to do with this, nor does the Washington Monument. As for the phallic implications of those particular images, that’s up for discussion. Militant feminism is past its prime, and getting worked up over matters as trivial as this only makes things worse. It was a juvenile college-boy prank, nothing more. Deal with...
...hindsight, identifying $100 million a year to cut from Harvard’s costs makes the University’s concern about the $13 million necessary to extend a living wage to all its workers seem trivial. The administration’s insistence that labor be outsourced in the name of lower costs was at that time a very weak claim given their apparent lack of interest in fielding competitive bids on items from computers to construction materials...
...that excludes gender identity and expression from its nondiscrimination policy. We still live in a society that allows Donald Rumsfeld and friends to blackmail the Law School into allowing Judge Advocate General recruiters on campus. Perhaps the “safe space” signs are not quite as trivial as Smith would have us believe...