Word: imprimature
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Fluoxetine hydrochloride had been approved for use in Belgium the year before. But the imprimatur of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration heralded a whole new era. At first, just scientists were excited, because Prozac, as the Eli Lilly company christened it for the market, was the first in a new class of medications that would treat depression by exquisitely controlling the levels of serotonin, a brain chemical involved in mood. But the FDA's approval letter became the founding charter for a Prozac nation, as vast numbers of American consumers were seduced by a prescription to lift...
...Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are better versed in—well—the arts and sciences of the motion picture than we are, but we all know “The Hours” will be the same movie with or without the Academy’s imprimatur...
...cult whose leader believes he has communicated with extraterrestrials. Guillen offered to hire outside scientists to test whether the baby was, indeed, a clone. His very involvement, including an appearance with Clonaid’s chief Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, helped give the claims credence. Indeed, his imprimatur as an outside “expert” suddenly made the Raelian claim believable enough to make hundreds of newspapers and television news shows...
...English department’s decision to re-extend an invitation to Oxford poet and Columbia visiting lecturer Tom Paulin sets a disturbing precendent of allowing speakers who promulgate hate speech and religiously based violence to address this campus under the Harvard imprimatur...
...mission statement, so when you’re joining up, you’re sort of becoming a part of that whole mission, that one day all kids will have the same opportunity to get an excellent education.” Teach For America has taken on the imprimatur of a domestic Peace Corps, representing the most prestigious and effective opportunity for public service in education...