Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million appropriation is a pittance in NIH's overall annual budget of more than $10 billion, critics resent that any sum is being diverted from traditional research. Some carp that the office will be a refuge for quacks -- a charge Jacobs flatly denies. "We're not created to rubber-stamp questionable practices...
EVERYONE KNEW THAT CHICO MENDES WAS A marked man -- long before the leader of the Amazon rubber tappers and champion of rain-forest preservation was killed in 1988. Little was done to protect him from hostile ranchers bent on stripping the forests. When his assassins, Darci Alves Pereira and his father % Darly Alves da Silva, were convicted two years later, it was an unprecedented strike for justice that triggered a steady decline in local violence...
...tall, the student decisions were pretty much rubber stamped by the faculty," said student advisory committee member Aaron J. Snow '93, "Epps wanted to make it clear that the faculty would be more involved in this season's decisions...
...Dean Epps did indicate that the Faculty would not just rubber stamp the committee's proposals," said SAC co-chair Ouzama N. Nicholson '94. "But I think he was also concerned about the equity of the process...
...game assigns each player a target to "kill" with special flaming orange rubber dart guns, or with "poison" administered through a sticker at the bottom of the victim's plate in the dining hall...