Word: trivialization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Most professors agreed that Haig's association with Watergate is not a key issue. Riesman called it "relatively trivial" compared with Haig's military posture. Richard Neustadt, professor of Public Administration, said Democratic opposition to Haig based on Watergate alone would be ineffective, but that a discussion of Haig's role in Vietnam and Cambodia would be appropriate...
...Liberman, the details of the offenses the committee charged him with seemed trivial. "The issue to all of us wasn't that we had done it, but whether it was right. And they weren't prepared to argue that with us," he says...
...power is to be exercised effectively, it has to be exercised selectively. A President selectively. A President cannot squander his energies, his attention and his ability to make things happen on the trivial without slighting the important...
Many faculty feel students can too easily manipulate the system to take trivial or easy courses--"jelly rolls," in Rice jargon--in areas outside their major, Wiener said...
...Reagan explains this aspect of his ideological roots with a personal anecdote. While serving as an Army base adjutant in California, he noticed that the civilian employees sent in by Washington were far less efficient than the military personnel. They had a much higher ratio of administrators to workers. Trivial, perhaps, but Reagan has brought up that experience in two conversations, nine months apart, to explain the beginnings of his belief that the federal bureaucracy is overblown...