They also make for effective window dressing, helping to keep critics and regulators quiet.
Caroline Flint quit as Europe minister complaining she had been used as "window dressing".
The rest of us north of 100 million voters amount to window dressing.
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It has proposed new types of disclosures to help investors identify when banks are window dressing.
Including those other than the Fed and the ECB was, in my opinion, window dressing.
The old production sistems have decayed and collapsed, new ones exist mainly as window dressing.
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"I think there was a lot of window dressing there, " Drasdo told BBC Sport.
Also, some big fund managers are likely doing some position squaring or window dressing late this week.
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Meanwhile, both the House and Senate are proposing duelling budgets, which critics have dismissed as political window dressing.
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"It's window dressing", said Ryo Hino, an analyst at JP Morgan in Tokyo.
The judging of a window dressing competition held between the local primary schools.
Tanjung and Marzuki, he says, are just window dressing for a party that remains what it always was: a patronage machine.
But the rebel groups still fighting say that while Tutsis dominate the army, a Hutu president would be mere window dressing.
It is the tough choices that call for personal sacrifice that reveal whether our cherished ideals are real or mere window dressing.
The financing machinations are mere window dressing to satisfy German tax authorities.
Other regulators have said they are looking into window dressing as well.
He warned, however, that while the deal is "safe and sensationally appealing, " it "is a window dressing" with risk of its own.
As for that detachable scope, it's primary function is window dressing.
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.
"When we talk about the environment, it's not window dressing, " insists Jeff Clarke, chief executive of Travelport, one of the world's largest travel conglomerates.
Sir Michael also said that the end of the "satisfactory" grading for schools was "not window dressing, it is not just changing the terminology".
Political relations and perceived strategic interests matter far more than military purchases, which seem largely to be window dressing and profit opportunities for political insiders.
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"This is window dressing, " says academic and government critic K.S. Jomo, who accuses the authorities of engineering the rally to pave the way for elections.
However the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) described it as window dressing.
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.
Of all those sins, one of the most obviously criminal was the window dressing done each quarter to hide massive amounts to debt from shareholders and the public.
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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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.
MarthaStewartMartha Stewart's conviction should be remembered only as window dressing.
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