Word: rubberize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told to ask no more questions about the matter. And of course years later I realized that he had been our man, our informant, inside the ring that we had penetrated. Therefore I was actually simply part of his cover story. All they wanted me to do was rubber-stamp him so he could get on with his life again...
...worked. In May, after a motion by Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, the Faculty finally voted to accept the report's recommendations, paving the way for Rudenstine's eager rubber stamp...
...Harvard governance bodies--The President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers--are reduced to the position of a mere rubber stamp of the administration, the only source of their information. Yet each member of these two governing bodies is liable for dereliction of fiduciary duty and gross negligence. They risk losing at least $1 million a day for Harvard...
...Everyone knows that health care will be the issue that the President cashes in all his chips for. Democrats won't stray unless they have great reason to. But we still don't know how health-care reform will be paid for, and we're not just going to rubber-stamp the deal." Republicans, like the Democrats, are getting an earful from their constituents about the high costs, insecurity and gaps in coverage of the present jerry-built nonsystem. Some will try to find reasons to vote for reform, and even those who are inclined to oppose it are leery...
...anchovies in the Pacific. The United Nations and World Bank sponsored the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to sustain forests, but instead the plan spurred further deforestation. When asked by an environmentalist what he meant by sustainable, a World Bank agronomist replied, "Fifty years of timber production." Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, who along with their martyred leader, Chico Mendes, became symbols of the sustainable use of tropical forests, overexploit their ecosystem. Writing in the journal BioScience, John Browder notes that in search of food and sources of cash, these seringueiros can kill off wildlife...