TWO seconds of metallic music may seem a rather trivial basis for spending 12 years battling through the German courts.
In a written response at that time, Mr. Puchta asserted that Mr. Chipps had focused on trivial problems and spent an inordinately long time conducting his inspections.
With Paul's passing, I realizde that many of the things I stress are quite trivial -- I spend way too much energy on issues that honestly do not matter in the grand scheme of things.
So, as trivial as my personal spending is to an airline, I may have been unwittingly sending two clear signals last month when I abandoned plans for a leisure trip and a business trip.
Grey, part of the Grey Global Group unit of the WPP Group, has been creating ads for Hasbro games like Candy Land, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble; spending for those ads was estimated at $30 million to $40 million a year.
True, promiscuity had taken a hit from Aids, but on balance we seemed to be in for a trivial, giggly, drug-enhanced spend-o-rama: Brave New World was winning the race.
That's not to say that reaching 126 million people is a trivial task; you could spend a lot of money and not get close to that.
It was the system that was (is) funky this system that offers this wonderful collective protection to a group of people, in exchange for their time, time spent doing trivial activities away (for 8 to 12 hours a day) from the people they love.
"It is easy to criticize, even though they know the money is trivial compared to overall health spending," Mr. Ehrlich said in an interview.
So increases in non-security discretionary spending were a trivial factor in the overall rise in spending as a share of G.D.P., of which well over half – say 1.2 percentage points at least – was security-related.
