Word: rubber
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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...
Ever since he retired after the gulf war, this popular general has sparked standing ovations across the U.S. with rousing speeches about can-do American fighting spirit -- 90 chats so far at $20,000 a pop. No, not Stormin' Norman. The military hero of the rubber-chicken circuit is TOM KELLY, the avuncular Army commander who conducted daily Pentagon briefings during the war. Kelly, who has signed for 60 more speeches, stands to earn some $3 million this year, far more than he made during his 34-year military career and millions of dollars more than Schwarzkopf has made...
Members of Congress expect to be called Honorable, but their claim to that honorific is looking pretty flimsy. First came the check-bouncing scam, when investigators found that lawmakers wrote more than 8,000 rubber checks at their private bank last year, free of charge. Then came word of members' stiffing the House restaurant, where prices are already dirt cheap. Suddenly, talk-show comedians, radio deejays, newspaper editorialists and the mailman were all talking about exactly the same thing: How can members of Congress balance a budget and spend tax dollars wisely when they can't even balance their checkbooks...
...bounced any checks, says the furor "captures the brick-through-the-window political mood. It shows you how angry people are with the incumbents." She was talking to her father on the telephone at the end of the week, and even he asked if she had been writing rubber checks. "No, Daddy, I didn't," she replied. "I can't believe that even you are asking me about this...