Word: rubber-stamp
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...medal winner, has his own notion: "It's the way they've been brought up. What's cheating to us is not cheating to them." The pivotal problem is that the judges are originally picked by member nations, leaving the Olympic Committee little choice but to rubber-stamp the nominations. One sure way to avoid a recrudescence of suspect decisions at the XXI Olympiad would be to change the system and let one of the international Olympic bodies choose the judges...
Insurance commissioners are often bland political appointees who rubber-stamp rate increases, but Denenberg is doing his belligerent best to shake and change the industry. In his first 18 months in office, the red-haired former professor, 42, has made remarkable progress. Ralph Nader, who recommended Denenberg for the job, predicts that he will be "the most outstanding commissioner that the country has ever had." Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp, who is often overshadowed by his headline-making employee, tells audiences jestingly: "You may not know me, but I'm the guy who brought Herb Denenberg to Harrisburg...
...radio license has long seemed a permanent possession for most broadcasters. Though the law required periodic review of a station's performance, its right to continue using the air waves was rarely questioned, and the Federal Communications Commission tended to rubber-stamp most license renewals. No more. To the dismay of the broadcasting industry, citizen groups and rival commercial interests are posing increasingly numerous and serious challenges to the near perpetual license...
...recent Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Indianapolis brought out some fine literary ruffles and flourishes. Senator Birch Bayh gave a deft demonstration of cliche clustering with his characterization of "a rubber-stamp candidate chosen by the vested interests in a smoke-filled room." Senator Vance Hartke offered some introspective metaphysics: "What must we seem to the deeper inner selves of ourselves?" And State Democratic Chairman Gordon St. Angelo, when asked if he was trying to get Teddy Kennedy to run for President, showed old Mrs. Malaprop a thing or two: "I haven't made any ovations...
Last week the poly-Papadopoulos added another title. He brusquely de posed General George Zoitakis, who had been Regent and acting head of state since King Constantine fled the country following an unsuccessful countercoup. The ouster of Zoitakis was voted unanimously by Greece's 17-member rubber-stamp Cabinet last week, ostensibly because the Regent had refused to approve a new law increasing personnel in the security forces and national fire department. Within half an hour Papadopoulos had been "requested" to succeed the general as Regent. Under pictures of Constantine and his Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, Greece...