Word: imprimatur
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...revive vouchers in the mid-1980s, and George Bush gave lip service to the concept during the 1988 campaign. But the current intellectual momentum stems from the publication of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by political scientists John Chubb and Terry Moe. This influential book bears the imprimatur of the Brookings Institution, Washington's leading liberal think tank...
...honored and respected men alive, Mandela is in the spotlight everywhere he goes. But in the U.S., where media fire storms are an art form, the visit-as-event will reach its highest stage. He will be besieged by cameras and jostling admirers, beseeched by myriad groups seeking his imprimatur, and bemedaled at parades and stadium rallies for eleven days in eight cities from Harlem to Hollywood...
...bargain; the lingering gaps in my education (the inability to commune with head waiters in flawless French, tone-deaf ignorance of classical music, and scientific training that stopped with Mr. Wizard) are entirely my own fault. At 43 I can safely conclude that the lack of an Ivy League imprimatur has neither marred my career nor deprived me of any social entree that I would have enjoyed...
...mullahs who survived the purges and won permission to exercise religious functions were often viewed with suspicion by the Muslim laity. As a result, a network of "parallel" mosques sprang up across the Asian republics, where Muslim believers practiced their religion without official imprimatur. In Uzbekistan an undetermined number of Muslims have joined mystical Sufi sects. In Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan authorities have recently become concerned about the spread of groups espousing Wahhabism, the puritanical sect of the Sunni branch of Islam that first emerged in Saudi Arabia in the 18th century...
...that the project may add to shoppers' confusion. Under the plan, called HeartGuide, food manufacturers submit their products to be analyzed for cholesterol, salt, and total- and saturated-fat content. Items that meet the A.H.A.'s criteria are allowed to use the seal on labels and in advertisements. The imprimatur is currently limited to four categories -- margarines and spreads, canned and frozen vegetables, crackers, and oils and shortenings -- but in coming months it will be extended to other groups, perhaps cookies and frozen desserts. So far, about 100 products have been enrolled in HeartGuide; all are expected to pass...