Word: cosmeticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concerns about appearance and manner may have a place in a medium that uses personalities to attract viewers to the news. But TV executives around the country said that in Craft's case, the show business considerations were insensitively handled and tinged with sexism. Said General Manager Monte Newman...
The issue, however, may be shifting from sex to age. Says Reporter Zoe Levin, 36, of Kansas City's WDAF: "Today the emphasis on cosmetics applies to men as well.'' At the networks, some older male correspondents, including CBS Veterans George Herman, 63, and Robert Pierpoint, 58...
John Kennedy agreed to remove from Europe forerunners of the Pershing II, while Nikita Khrushchev removed from Cuba the forerunners of the SS-20. That exchange was largely cosmetic. The U.S. had been planning to pull its missiles out of Europe anyway, for its own political and military reasons, while...
Jaruzelski hopes that the government's moves will persuade the U.S. and other Western nations to lift economic sanctions and help Poland avoid defaulting on its $26 billion foreign debt. Although Washington had made ending martial law a precondition for lifting sanctions, President Reagan reacted to last week'...
Reagan had Republican leaders in the Senate on his side in opposing a massive lobbying effort by the nation's banks to repeal the withholding of 10% of income gained from interest and dividends. He had vowed to veto any such repeal bill, accusing the bankers of "great distortion...