Word: cosmeticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever unity, cosmetic or genuine, was produced in that mirage of a city, Venice, could not hide the reality of the deep fissure between the U.S. and Europe. The decline of American strength that so impresses and distresses the Europeans is undeniable (see NATION). This weakening-in economic thrust, military...
But the wave of reform ended when Tom Murton left Arkansas. The new warden reverted to a strict trustie system that eliminated the prisoners' new-found sense of responsibility. A few of Murton's innovations were retained but the system was not new, only dressed-up. "Cosmetic changes only domesticate...
Top Western diplomats greeted this array of Soviet proposals with considerable skepticism. Muskie and his British, French and West German counterparts discussed the new Soviet campaign at a breakfast meeting in Vienna. Muskie called the Afghanistan plan a "cosmetic and not a meaningful proposal." But British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington...
In 1954 George E. Johnson started his own business in a South Side Chicago storefront by borrowing $250 and mixing, with wooden poles, a hair straightener for blacks. Twenty-two years later his company's health and beauty products had $39 million in annual sales, and Johnson Products became...
So the maneuvering began. Dingell drew up a substitute proposal that was almost entirely cosmetic. It would add the word energy to the title of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, but give it little extra authority -thereby creating an energy committee that would not have much to do...