Word: trivializes
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...left to itself, it can become an undiscriminating rant, equalizing the serious and the trivial, the horrors of Biafra and the poor quality of frozen dinners...
...Richard Nixon is reelected, he might tackle this question in his second term. He has shown a very strong interest in the -organization of the presidency and the flow of work and responsibility within the Executive Branch. Some of his critics treat this as a trivial preoccupation with mechanics, but that is a quite mistaken view. Management instruments, in government as well as corporate life, can have highly creative consequences...
Rising costs now squeeze everyone from chancellor to freshman, at every place from mighty Harvard to lowly Podunk. Because many universities had grown fat and pampered, the first effects of the new austerity have been largely positive. Grandiose construction plans, harebrained experiments and trivial research-all these are being shelved or abolished. But only so much efficiency can be wrung out of a basically inefficient system without altering its nature...
...letterhead of SANE, a nationwide peace group, and a letter from a woman apologizing to the FBI for having told her neighbors information that the FBI had asked her to keep confidential (she had talked, she said, because she thought the information was "inconsequential and of a trivial nature...
...cases that have arisen under similar statutes in other states have been relatively trivial. For the most part they have involved disturbances of religious meetings. In a religious meeting, the standards for decorum, of course, are higher than at a political meeting. Therefore, these cases are only a loose guide to the "customs and usages" of a political gathering. Even in a church, however, certain protests have been held to be a legitimate exercise of free speech even if they interrupted the service...