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Had these reforms come a month sooner, they might have defused the protest movement (TIME, Sept. 30), which is led by a genial, chain-smoking Catholic priest, Father Tran Huu Thanh, 59. But by last week the opposition had grown so strong that it was not about to accept cosmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Holiday Without Joy | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Brake," about one-third of France's 700,000 shopkeepers last week voluntarily reduced prices by 5% on school supplies, children's clothing, ham, yogurt, sausage and other common goods. No one expects the widely publicized program to have anything but a cosmetic effect on France's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Season of Discontent | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Jackson certainly will not be able to stop the momentum for détente, but he has raised enough obstacles to upset the White House and outrage the Kremlin. The Senator dismissed the Moscow summit as being more "cosmetic" than substantial and suggested that the President would have been wiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scoop Jackson: Meanwhile, Back in Peking . . . | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

The History Department vote follows a recommendation made last week by current panel members that the group stop sending representatives to the CGE, a student-faculty advisory body. At that meeting, Agnew said he felt the CGE was "a cosmetic operation designed to co-opt graduate student protest."

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: History Grad Students Spurn Panel | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

When the Library Corporation announced earlier this month that the monumental 85-foot-high glass pyramid would be replaced by a lower-slung brick museum, community groups attacked the move as a "cosmetic" change. They said the alteration in the museum was designed only to save money without cutting down...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: The Kennedy Library: A Sad Story | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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