Word: glossed
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...joint press conference at Karzai's heavily guarded Arg Palace, both he and Obama put a traditional diplomatic gloss on their meeting. Obama said "the American people are encouraged by the progress that is being made," while Karzai lauded Washington's continued commitment to Afghanistan...
Sukhdev, who's also Study Leader for a UNEP initiative called The Economics of Ecosystems and Diversity (TEEB), says that currently "the economic value attached to nature is zero. Our metrics are geared toward consumption and production of man-made goods and services, and we tend to gloss over nature." This, he says, has led to "bad accounting" which, in turn, has contributed to rapid biodiversity loss...
...even revolutionary, model of prima donna that is more Lady Gaga than Victoria Gotti ... The trash-talking, overly tanned ladies of Jersey Shore pick fistfights, refuse to cook or clean up and shuffle around in slippers and sweats while the guys in the house preen and put on lip gloss...