Word: rubber-stamp
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Despite some brief humiliation, Lewis got the one things he wanted: he still runs Bank of America and has a rubber-stamp board that supports...
...pictures of North Korea's rubber-stamp elections...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has given his rubber-stamp National Assembly the green light to fashion yet another constitutional referendum on whether presidential term limits should be eliminated in the western hemisphere's largest oil producer. "We're going to achieve it," the left-wing Chávez declared to thousands of supporters in Caracas on Sunday. "We're going to demonstrate who rules in Venezuela. If God gives me life and health, I will be with you until 2021" - the bicentennial of Venezuela's independence from Spain. "Uh-ah, Chávez no se va," he sang...
...inauguration speech centered on praise for his predecessor's achievements and promises to continue in Putin's steps. For his part, Putin segued smoothly from presidency to prime ministership. Formally nominated to head the government by Medvedev, Putin was confirmed in that post by a tame Duma in a rubber-stamp vote of 392 to 56 on Thursday...
...deceive you: Military panels are no substitute for habeas corpus hearings. Officials are pressured to rubber-stamp previously made judgments and accept “garbage” evidence, explains Lt. Col. Stephen E. Abraham, a military attorney who helped run the tribunals. “Nobody stood up and said the emperor’s wearing no clothes,” he writes in an affidavit. “The prevailing attitude was, ‘If they’re in Guantanamo, they’re there for a reason...