Word: cosmeticized
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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...
The reforms have been staunchly backed by the Carter Administration, which two weeks ago acted to forestall a right-wing military coup against the junta. Part of a $50 million U.S. aid package has been earmarked to help get the program off the ground. Still, the reforms have been criticized...
Whereas many agree that the ad is offensive, overtly sexual, and in poor taste, it is not intuitively obvious to some why the ad is sexist. There are two reasons why it is sexist. First, women are objectified in order to sell products. Second, implicit in the Chanel ad is...
Jerry Brown's success in dealing with certain issues--energy and affirmative action--has done little to change a national reputation based largely on his personality and symbolic rejection of the prequisites of office. Stressing trivia, he has become a master of the cosmetic solution--his new Plymouth cost more...
Advocates of the withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa and the divestiture of Harvard's investments in those corporations believe Sullivan's principles are worthless, a cosmetic alteration of apartheid's horrors that corporations uphold only to legitimize their business in South Africa. They believe, furthermore, that Sullivan's...