Word: cosmeticize
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At week's end, Nakasone issued a statement, approved by other L.D.P. leaders, in which he promised to "eliminate completely" Tanaka's influence in the party. The opposition dismissed the gesture as cosmetic. Yet even if Nakasone survives the political sharpshooting within his party, he still faces an...
Even as they rejected the deal that their negotiator had privately endorsed, the Soviets began positioning themselves to make a series of lesser, primarily cosmetic concessions. Their hope was that by demonstrating flexibility every few months, they could induce the West Europeans to postpone deployment in order to give the...
The Nicaraguan moves have met with intense skepticism at the White House. Administration officials are inclined to believe that the reforms are largely cosmetic, aimed at fending off an invasion without achieving any genuine change. Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We see no real evidence that the Sandinistas have...
Sears has been making more than cosmetic changes. It has also been revamping its operations. More inventory has been moved onto the floor to avoid time-wasting runs to the back room. Stockroom clerks who formerly stayed behind the scenes now put new goods on shelves in full view of...
The new constitution would extend limited political rights to leaders of the Colored--those of mixed race--and Indian minorities by opening up the cabinet, the first such move since the arrival of whites 331 years ago. But the change is basically cosmetic. It does not hullify the weighted voting...