Word: sugarcoat
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...report doesn't sugarcoat the future when it comes to climate change, saying the world faces a looming disaster if its leaders drag their feet in Copenhagen. Among the predictions likely to alarm the big energy consumers...
...It’s disappointing not to qualify for Easterns,” co-captain Egen Atkinson said. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it, the season’s over, and it definitely stings...
...Finally, Leiby will play DJ, mixing together the intro and outro of the performance, combining techno with rap. Arts First will mark the musicians’ first performance together. Banking on a good pub atmosphere, Freestyle Electronica hopes to wow the crowd with their sugarcoat-free rap and electronic beats...
...Cheney didn't sugarcoat his attacks on the Obama Administration, saying its counterterrorism policies "will in fact raise the risk to the American people" of another terrorist attack. Cheney claimed that the Bush policies - including holding suspects at Guantánamo Bay and using harsh interrogation techniques to extract information from them - had helped prevent another attack after 9/11...
...argument goes that Medvedev needed to further sugarcoat the cuts and reforms - the most dramatic in the last 40 years. "You cannot tell these officers that they will have to be cut because Russia wants to make friends with the U.S.," says Dmitri Trenin the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "You have to tell them they have been cut because NATO poses a serious threat, and we need to improve our armed forces to be able to protect ourselves...