Word: trivializing
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...economy will be the basic issue in these elections, but the points of controversy will be trivial reforms--the "compact of permanent union" and Hernandez Colon's austerity plan--not the real question of how to create employment and economic growth without increasing inequality. The victory of either major candidate will mean four more years wasted attempting to resuscitate a bankrupt approach to development...
...high art. But unlike most illuminated manuscripts and some photographs, Xerox copies are seldom more interesting than their originals. The Xerox machine has taken the art out of copying, made it too easy. As a result, people are copying more now and enjoying it less. Nothing nowadays seems too trivial to be immortalized by that moving light-bar, memos of momentary importance, yesterday's newspaper clippings, smutty jokes for the office bulletin board, chain letters, recipes, offspring's homework. Some employers have even begun to allow their workers access to company copiers for personal use, a cheap, morale...
...purpose of the Entertainment Fund. In the article run on February 11, the purpose of the Entertainment Fund is again distorted, this time with little excuse. In paraphrasing the text given to The Crimson, the words "House staffs" are substituted for the words "household staff," which is not a trivial change. As a minimum, I believe that The Crimson should print verbatum and in its entirety the second paragraph of the text that was given to them last Monday. Bruce Collier Assistant Dean of Harvard College
...about himself in Doonesbury. Thompson was best in writing about thugs and goons, from San Bernadino's Hell's Angels and the burnt-out geeks of Las Vegas, to the inhabitants of the Oval Office. Covering Saigon at the time of NLF victory, when Nixon was gone, Thompson seemed trivial, almost offensive. At the same time the presidential tapes were revealing that H.E. and P. even talked like Thompson ("Take Pat Gray out and shoot him (laughter)"; "Fuck the lira, there's no votes in that"). But his day was done...
Several new accusations are also unveiled. Some are absurdly trivial: the article notes that Carter says he opens all the campaign mail sent to his Plains, Ga., home but really does not; Carter says he or his wife does. Other charges are somewhat more substantial: that Carter led anti-McGovern forces in 1972, ran a dirty tricks gubernatorial campaign in 1970 and withheld materials that point up inconsistencies in his record from the Georgia State Department of Archives and History. Some of the assertions are true, most notably the one about McGovern. Many of the other charges are open...