Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Printing this article on Wednesday and not Thursday may seem trivial, yet it was the difference between printing news and creating news based on uncertain figures. How many other people changed their choices on account of your article remains to be seen. Perhaps that would be news worth reporting...
...found this article petty and trivial--definitely not a newsworthy piece. It is too bad that Jeschke could not have written something trying to dispel the myths about Wellesley women and the bus. Instead, she magnifies the myths, as if trying to make us look as bad as possible...
Eclipsed by all these trivial pursuits was one of the peculiar and charming aspects of this presidency: Bush's relentless spontaneity. Bush is known for picking up the phone and calling foreign leaders, old friends in Texas, lowly bureaucrats in obscure agencies, to find out more about problems and policies. He likes to wander down to the office of his National Security Affairs adviser Brent Scowcroft to discuss the latest developments overseas. Sometimes, without a word to his wife, he'll invite visitors to lunch or dinner or even a sleep-over in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...obsessed with gossip, too absorbed with the private lives of public people? . . . For Naushad Mehta, interviewing columnist Liz Smith and her brethren for this week's cover stories was an amusing change of pace . . . Though Mehta kept asking about the troublesome issues raised by our national infatuation with the trivial, her subjects kept changing the topic to . . . you guessed it. Says Mehta: "They usually prefaced their gossip with the words 'Don't quote me on this...
...into risky new techniques, Morgan, despite a leading role in corporate takeovers, seemed stuck in its stodgy habit of underwriting stock for blue-chip companies and selling investment-grade bonds. The new breed was playing high-stakes Monopoly, the joke went, while the stuffed shirts at Morgan were playing Trivial Pursuit. But no one is laughing at Morgan's expense anymore. The firm, founded in 1935, is the most profitable on Wall Street, posting record earnings of $443 million last year on $2.5 billion in revenues. Its payroll, with 6,700 employees, is at its fullest ever...