Word: cosmeticize
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The House of Representatives underwent some plastic surgery at the polls, emerging with a somewhat younger and more attractive look. But beneath the cosmetic changes, the House remains heavily Democratic in soul and spirit. The so-called Watergate babies generally survived, and Democrats showed a net gain of one seat...
Fred Houn '79, spokesman for the Task Force on Affirmative Action, which last March sponsored a demonstration marking the presence of the compliance team and protesting Harvard's alleged discriminatory practices, said yesterday he thinks changes recommended by the report will be "cosmetic ones."
To camp it up and play it as parody must have been temptations difficult to resist. It would have been equally disastrous to play the lines straight with out inflective italics, thus pretending that they are not unutterably silly, which they are. Director Bill Gile has settled on the very...
As a result, Kissinger's strategy in the short and medium term is extremely similar to Vorster's. The aims of the current diplomatic initiative are to prevent violent conflicts which could bring into being radical regimes militarily hostile to South Africa on its borders and to legitimatize South Africa...
Willing Workers. The strongest draw is the region's willing workers, who, in general, still respect authority, and, out of fear or conviction, are loath to join unions (see story on page 75). Says Yardley President William Hunt, who moved the cosmetic firm's headquarters from New Jersey...