Word: trivializing
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...could handle, regardless of whether anybody would want to buy them. The harvest that couldn’t be sold domestically was “dumped” onto world markets, driving down the price and devastating the non-subsidized farmers in the developing world. The effect was not trivial: Oxfam estimates that the price of wheat has been driven down to 35 percent of what it cost to produce, while cotton and sugar would see a price increase of 26 and 17 percent respectively if subsidies were removed...
...those who try to dominate, you may find that allies come to your side unexpectedly to lend their support. Confronting the abuse and centralization of power may also help you discover your own strengths to recognize the reality and glory of your own existence. Take important risks but avoid trivial ones. You may choose to risk dying as a photojournalist covering wars, but cross the street carefully and get plenty of exercise while back at home...
...impatient with those who didn’t see things his way. He was an inconvenient man to have around. Never mind that he knows the College like Summers knows a supply curve or a donut, or that it took him less than six minutes to respond to a trivial e-mail I sent him hours after Harvard announced his ouster...
Uday's favorite punishment was the medieval falaqa, a rod with clamps that go around the ankles so that the offender, feet in the air, can be hit on the bare soles with a stick. A top official in radio and TV says he received so many beatings for trivial mistakes like being late for meetings or making grammatical errors on his broadcasts that Uday ordered him to carry a falaqa in his car. Uday also had an iron maiden that he used to torture Iraqi athletes whose performance disappointed...
...Crimson writers struggle every day with the challenge of trying to be professional reporters covering an organization—Harvard—that controls their existence as undergraduate students while administrators and professors often treat student journalists as if they were “playing” at a trivial pastime. Despite his differences with the organization’s editorial positions, Lewis never failed to treat The Crimson as a serious newspaper. As has been reported elsewhere in these pages, he would respond—sometimes at great length—to e-mail inquiries of all sorts...