window-dressing


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In fact, carefully crafted school choice policies must maintain a healthy number of "parent" mentions, but these mentions should be more than merely window-dressing. State legislatures and school reformers must also do more than sprinkle statutes with legal jargon and feel-good phrases related to parents.
Unless, God forbid, the Tories are so desperate they need a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde to provide a bit of window-dressing and to get HIM publicity.
The administrator alleges the company started window-dressing its accounts around 1986, initially to conceal a pretax loss that expanded to nearly 5 billion yen resulting from the yen's sharp rise.
Merchants like Philadelphia's John Wanamaker shaped the holiday by using religious images and symbolism as, literally, window-dressing to promote the sale of consumer goods for family-oriented celebrations.
The house they have made in Manhattan (p45) is of almost staggering luxury, yet it is created with modesty and restraint, speaking to us in terms of space, light, and beautifully honed and fondly understood materials rather than the language of advertising and window-dressing which we have come to expect from such houses on the East Coast.
But the move was condemned last night as "election window-dressing" because it would affect only a small number of yobs.
The local stock barometer stayed above 7,800 on Friday, wiping out early losses in the last trading day of August as window-dressing activities trumped US-China trade jitters.
Among the topics on their radar are Kristin Davis looking fab at 45, Steamcream teaming up with PPQ, how the "Cougar Town effect" has got women spending more on lingerie, and Florence Welch and Dizzee Rascal go window-dressing.
Mary arranges for owner Lucy to practice her window-dressing skills.
TOKYO - The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission is investigating Hiroshima-based electrical test maker OHT Inc., which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers market for start-ups, for allegedly window-dressing financial statements including its earnings report, investigative sources said Sunday.
A WINDOW-dressing competition to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kirkwood Hospice has a winner.
Help the Aged, in Queens Road, is taking part in a window-dressing competition to celebrate Volunteers' Week.
The local stock barometer rebounded to the 7,800 level yesterday on the back of selective buying spurred by quarter- and semester-end window-dressing activities.
The meltdown worsened as the PM was accused of using women as "window-dressing" by former Europe minister Caroline Flint, as she quit along with Defence Secretary John Hutton and Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon.
23 arrest having instructed his subordinates to dress up the company's financial reports, but the prosecutors believe the alleged talks are evidence that he approved the window-dressing while knowing such sales entries are illegal, the sources said.