Word: imprimature
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...accepted wisdom in Washington that each new First Family gets to put its personal imprimatur on the decor of the White House. It is also the right of every self-respecting armchair decorator to criticize the First Family's taste. The Lincolns were disparaged as spendthrifts. Rutherford Hayes' refurbishings were deemed "French-y and pretentious." Teddy Roosevelt smeared the Green Room with a polar-bear pelt, and purists reached for the smelling salts when Harry Truman built a balcony over the South Portico. Even decor queen Jackie Kennedy was sharply rebuked by the President himself when an all-too-authentic...
Jordan's absence from the court will not diminish his presence on the small screen. He will remain Nike's main salesman, for which the company pays him an estimated $20 million a year. (Nike in turn earns 10 times that much selling products with Jordan's imprimatur on them.) Jordan recently signed a 10-year deal with the Sara Lee company to promote everything from Hanes underwear to Ball Park franks. He has a 10-year $18 million contract with Quaker Oats to sell Gatorade. "Michael is truly in the league of legends. Whether he is playing or retired...
...although much of its fiction is unreadable. But the traditional New Yorker tone, which is largely determined by the magazine's editorial sensibilities, has been irretrievably lost. The magazine that Brown now edits, while of occasional interest, is no longer the New Yorker. Its cachet has been diminished, its imprimatur subtly devalued...
...Since matches determining the best player on earth normally crop up only once every three years, the phenomenon of two such face-offs commencing during the same week left rank-and-file devotees with divided loyalties and confusion aplenty. On the one hand, the Karpov-Timman contest bore the imprimatur of FIDE (pronounced FEE-day), the Federation Internationale des Echecs, the powerful governing body that has been running world championship competitions since 1948. In the past, FIDE's authority would have been enough to convince chess fans that Karpov-Timman was the match to follow. Unfortunately, Karpov and Timman...
...will those who fought so long to close off the spigot have the same success at opening it back up? Even with Nelson Mandela's imprimatur, money is unlikely to come gurgling into South Africa soon. First investors will want to weigh the risks and prospects on the new political landscape. "Like others, we're reading the tea leaves before we decide what to do," said a spokesman for IBM, which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most...