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...Medical School will be responsible for the content of the jointly marketed products, which will be sold under the school's imprimatur...
Government obviously seems willing to give its imprimatur to gambling so long as it receives a monetary benefit. So eager is the government to do this, in fact, that it runs its own gambling ring--lotteries. Deals like the one with Foxwoods, and state lotteries even more so, are often upheld on the ground that their revenues are used to supplement funding for important social programs that have widespread support, thus giving the people what they want while keeping taxes low. This rhetoric is nothing but the usual prattle that regularly drips from politicians' mouths...
...fast to the notion of transforming entitlements like Medicaid into block grants to the states. Gingrich figured that the proposal, when made public, would cost about 40 hard-line Republican votes in the House but would make up the difference among moderate Democrats. "The proposal had to have the imprimatur of bipartisanship," said a participant in the session...
Despite Deng's imprimatur, Jiang's position is weak; by conducting these campaigns and the crackdown on dissidents, Jiang is proving to hard-liners in the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army that he can control Chinese society. "Hard-liners are on the rise," notes Andrew Nathan, a political scientist at Columbia University. "They have more voice in the regime." Jiang needs their support if he is to succeed Deng, and the hard-liners have thought him too soft in the past...
...immune to the attraction of separatism. Look, for example, at the rise of Louis Farrakhan, the leading black separatist in America. Look at the ethnic social policies, the school curriculums, the racially gerrymandered electoral districts that give an official imprimatur to the notion of the primacy of group over nation...