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The concern trolling about the rights of the workers is just windowdressing – it is the trouble for the businesses …
Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009
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The concern trolling about the rights of the workers is just windowdressing – it is the trouble for the businesses, i.e., making businesses fairly share the revenues that are otherwise sucked up by the management and the shareholers, which is at stake.
Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009
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As in SF where the scientifically savvy may differentiate between rigorous extrapolation and technobabble, so in Fantasy the historically savvy may differentiate between rigorous historification and specious windowdressing.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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As in SF where the scientifically savvy may differentiate between rigorous extrapolation and technobabble, so in Fantasy the historically savvy may differentiate between rigorous historification and specious windowdressing.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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So this is what's really going on while Hillary hangs up the "let the remaining primary voters have their say" windowdressing.
In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates 2009
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Let see: 1. Monolines - a small part of the windowdressing scam.
Wisecracks that are too easy to make. Ann Althouse 2008
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This is why Americans sit at the edge of their seats for any slip -- Freudian or otherwise -- when the windowdressing falls away.
Keith Ablow: The Truth About First Ladies (or Husbands) 2008
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All the other stuff (fiscal restraint, etc.) was windowdressing for the rubes.
Think Progress » Fiscal Insanity: Paying for Tax Cuts With More Tax Cuts 2006
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Strategist's Personal Library: Afghani windowdressing, democracy marches on skip to main
Afghani windowdressing, democracy marches on jmnlman 2006
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I think the provisions stating the need for more input in the pre appointment is windowdressing, and certainly not binding on anyone in the White House.
About that filibuster compromise... Ann Althouse 2005
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