Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed. Her modeling fees can run as high as $10,000 a day, and she is about to sign a $1 million contract with Calvin Klein, who is convinced that he has made "a major statement" with the jeans ads. What is astonishing about these huge sums of money is...
University spokesmen did, like State Department spokesmen, "condemn and abhor" the racial incident, but Bok, the supposed leader of the University, remained mute. Perhaps the strange confluence of the death threat with the Yale Game influenced his low-key posture. But it should not surprise Bok or any other administrator...
Carter, who campaigned in 1976 on a pledge to balance the budget by 1981, was obviously trying to leave office with as small a deficit as possible, and he sometimes used mirrors to accomplish that. His revenue estimates, for example, include $13.1 billion from a proposed extra 10?-per-gal...
Other genetic-engineering companies have found large established firms to bankroll their research efforts rather than going to the stock market for capital. Berkeley-based Cetus, the oldest and largest of the firms, raised money by selling a microorganism it developed for penicillin production to Schering-Plough, a drug and...
In our minds, though, there is another, far larger question open-- whether it is sound policy for the United States to re-enter the chemical weaponry business. "Chemical weapons" is actually too cosmetic a name: what we will be producing, more accurately, is nerve gas, which kills by paralyzing the...