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But critics of the plan suggest that the reforms are at the best cosmetic.
What do an $800 Gucci briefcase, cosmetic surgery and a water slide have to do with spreading the Gospel? Nothing, the Internal Revenue Service ruled in effect last week as it revoked the tax-exempt status of PTL, the television ministry that supported the high living of Jim and Tammy...
Critics contend that such measures are largely cosmetic. The N.A.A.C.P. notes that the disparity between black and white student-enrollment figures is growing, despite court orders to reduce such gaps. In Arkansas, 46% of white high school graduates and 36% of blacks went on to college in 1978; by 1985...
After Botha finished his speech, a 35-minute droner devoted almost entirely to the economy, the briefly integrated assemblage filed out to reconvene as usual in three separate chambers. And though the government has proposed that joint sessions be held periodically, the colored House of Representatives and its leader, the...
At the heart of that debate is the question of whether the Sandinistas can be trusted. A skeptical White House dismisses Sandinista concessions as cosmetic and insincere. "Each step they have taken, each reluctant reform, is still easily undone," Reagan insisted. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut challenged that view...