Word: cosmeticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I fled Lebanon in 1975. Since then, nothing has changed. The country is tired of cosmetic solutions. It needs major surgery: outright partition.
Gorky's real name was Vosdanik Adoian. His father was a carpenter in Armenia, his mother the descendant of minor nobility and priests. He renamed himself as a defiant cosmetic gesture: "Arshile," he explained, was the Russian form of Achilles, and the writer Maxim Gorky was one of the...
Outraged by the drug connection, U.S. congressmen have organized opposition to the Garcia Meza regime. Sen. Dennis De Concinni (R-Ariz.), one of the most vocal opponents, contends that cocaine elites actually prop up the government, referring to an alleged $70 million emergency grant given by those involved in the...
Mindful of the spreading Islamic disgust at the sort of corruption that helped topple the Shah of Iran two years ago, the Saudi regime has recently begun a well-publicized clean-up drive. The campaign, though, is largely cosmetic; payoffs continue unchecked. One method is fifty-fifty partnership arrangements between...
Frei noted that cosmetic treatment meant to improve the quality of the patient's life after treatment has gained in importance. Instead of amputation of a 15-year-old's leg, for example, doctors now will isolate only the part of the bone affected by cancer and treat it with...