Word: sugarcoat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign, moreover, he flatly rejected the idea of higher gasoline taxes, calling them "backbreaking." But now is precisely the time to talk of sacrifice. "He's got a honeymoon," says economist Ratajczak. "So he has to decide what nastiness he's going to serve up that the honeymoon will sugarcoat. And he has to serve up that nastiness early...
Much as administrators may try to sugarcoat it with cute stories and happy talk, the Faculty's budget crisis--an $11.7 million deficit with the prospect of a widening gap between income and expenditures--will require serious work to mend...