Its terrain is window-dressing in the service of a strictly scripted guided tour of a story.
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By the same token, many of Mr Habibie's reforms are dismissed as window-dressing.
But from its inception, this was a franchise about shooting monsters in space that had a few jumpy moments and some scary window-dressing.
Did Senator Kaufman got CFO Viniar to put a Goldman statement regarding Repo 105 and other balance sheet window-dressing techniques in the record?
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Mr. Cuomo's office has also been investigating suspected window-dressing transactions at other banks, said the person, and is probing whether they similarly misled investors.
Hardly surprising, then, that many dismiss Sheikh Hamad's behaviour as window-dressing.
"Pope Benedict took a few, tiny, window-dressing steps toward resolving the crisis, " said Kristine Ward, chairwoman of the National Survivor Advocates Coalition, a support group for victims of sexual abuse.
In 1995, when Mr Zeroual, a retired general, was the army's choice, there was no question that he might lose to any of the three party leaders who provided window-dressing.
So this latest revamp may be just more window-dressing.
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Others say posting troops at airports is only window-dressing.
The suggestion that there is an element of window-dressing in Labour's cultivation of ties with business is strengthened by the distinctly woolly nature of some of the assignments given to leading businessmen.
These questions are important for us all to consider, and they suggest an interpretation of CSR as more than just window-dressing, but of being enshrined within and across corporate activities, including legal activities.
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Analysts are predicting that China will permit only small changes in the value of the yuan in the near term for window-dressing purposes, but might allow it to rise 5% to 10% over the coming year.
The only party that can easily fulfil all these criteria is Mr Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which might then choose, for the sake of window-dressing, to endorse a few rival candidates from the handful of weak secular parties.
The potential exists for a head and shoulders pattern that could rally this market into end-of-the-quarter window dressing shenanigans before possibly turning back down.
In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.
If not, then these committees will only serve as additional bureaucratic window dressing at a time when the SEC must re-establish its credibility with American voters and savers.
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The floor at 1040-1050 might hold until the end of the quarter, because of window dressing, but after that earnings season will likely hold the key.
The transactions in question, known as "window dressing, " involve repurchase agreements, or repos, a form of short-term borrowing that allows banks to take bigger trading risks.
These companies are fighting a growing trend by governments and non-profits that expect CSR to include real substantive steps, and not just marketing ploys and window dressing.
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