In Tokyo, the government's spin-doctors have been trying to gloss over the prime minister's gaffe.

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When adapting the Enron book for television, the movie's writer, Stephen Mazur , knew he had to gloss over the complexities of Enron's off-balance-sheet partnerships.

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Shares in Ahold, a Dutch supermarket operator with large American operations, recently tumbled after investors took fright at the company's attempt to gloss over an unflattering American accounting treatment in favour of the European one.

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The problem is that the PSE's 15-man board of governors does not agree with Almadro's findings and was prepared to gloss over the allegations of fraud.

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Doctors often gloss over a key question for assessing a person's risk for coronary heart disease, according to a new study: What is the patient's family history of cardiovascular illness?

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Bay tries to gloss over the infantile plot, but it would take a lighter, wittier touch to square the movie's pedestrian script with its excitable vision of impending auto-geddon.

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