Word: cosmeticize
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Minority governments are attempting to rule in Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There were no effective governments at all last week in Italy and Belgium. In France, isolated and ailing President Georges Pompidou did little to restore confidence in his ability to govern by a largely cosmetic Cabinet reshuffling. In...
Smoother-rolling radial tires could become universal. Cars may be made almost entirely of plastic to cut body weight?though not if the oil shortage continues to reduce the supply of petrochemical feedstocks from which plastics are made. Autos will almost surely be shorter in front and rear and roomier...
While politicians and bureaucrats in Washington tried to agree on the best ways to cope with the crisis (see following story), local officials and private citizens were taking matters into their own hands. Sometimes their energy-saving measures were more cosmetic than effective, but they were almost always imaginative. In...
The source also said that Greece's recent push toward democratization and parliamentary rule was "only a facade which the United States government wanted for cosmetic reasons."
The watery brown eyes stare out from sockets sunk into folds of flaccid flesh. Thin purple veins straggle across the high cheekbones, so close to the surface that they almost seem etched on the first layer of skin. The second chin sags into a second throat. Black dye has been...