Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like or care about the middle class is bound to make him look very silly. George Herbert Walker Bush is George Herbert Walker Bush. He owns a yacht, he's a member of Skull and Bones, and his White House staffers use taxpayer-funded air-planes to fly to stamp auctions...
...Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister who will lead the U.N. into the new world order defies categorization. He won under the African banner, but he is not black. He is an Arab who is a Coptic Christian with a Jewish wife. He represents the Third World with the stamp of Paris-honed sophistication; he is the son of a wealthy family, the grandson of a Prime Minister. He was widely considered old for the demanding job but was criticized for campaigning for it too vigorously...
Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson, Harvard's resident ant-man, gave his stamp of approval to the peanut/acid concoction. Praising its non-toxic effect, Wilson called the Dunster House project, "the magic bullet, fitting the particular circumstances in addition to the species...
Some observers have suggested that the Board provided merely a rubber stamp to the Corporation's choice, as overseers were forced to vote quickly and with little discussion. Whitehead says, however, that the approval came quickly at the end because overseers had been in touch with the process all along...
...overseer questions Whitehead's claim that closer contact between the two bodies means more influence for the overseers, saying, "What will happen is not that the Corporation will share power, but that the Corporation will run the University and the Board will go back to being a rubber stamp...