Word: imprimatured
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...dozens of young Hollywood moviemakers, happiness is being paid to mount elaborate tributes to the guilty pleasures of their youth. Horror comic books, low-budget melodramas, early rock 'n' roll-the trinity of '50s trash -have received the pop-cultural imprimatur from canny directors and writers who see their task as dynamiting the citadel of middle-class tastefulness. Energy is the password, anarchy the politics...
...almost nonexistent and the Secretary's power was not challenged within the White House. Haig virtually dismissed the importance of the NSC staff in policy formulation because it is composed of people who are not subject to Senate confirmation. U.S. foreign policy, argued Haig, must bear the "imprimatur" of officials who have "undergone the confirmation process and who traditionally the American people have held responsible under that process...
...P.C.I, might break with Moscow altogether. Last week, in a rare public display of a Communist family quarrel, the Soviet Communist Party was revealed as having blasted Berlinguer in no uncertain terms. The Italian weekly Panorama published a confidential letter from the Soviet Cen tral Committee, obviously with the imprimatur of Leonid Brezhnev, rebuking the Italians for showing too much solidarity with Solidarity...
...Reagan Administration is considering whether to renegotiate SALT II in a way that will allow it to replace Carter's imprimatur with its own or whether to let it die. It should definitely try to revive the treaty, and the less renegotiation the better, since the agreement as it stands represents a sound compromise. The treaty would not, as some critics have charged, lock the U.S. into a position of inferiority. There are things in SALT II that the U.S. does not like. There are things in it that the Soviets do not like. SALT II, among its other...
...public now are more mature. They generally have at least five years of earnings, and the price-earnings ratios aren't in the in finite numbers of the '60s." More stock underwriting is also now being done by old-line, well-capitalized investment banking firms. This psychological imprimatur tends to make the stocks seem like some what safer investments...