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I guess my question is: How do I distinguish "sanctioned" gossip from regular old slander?
The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Or is gossip only sanctioned when the topic is of a private, personal nature?
Telethon seems here to stay, sanctioned by dictionaries, but no dictionary records the next innovation with -athon , and I can only guess that the new suffix began attaching to other base elements in the 1950s and '60s.
If this drags on for too long, and Iran (say) seems inexcusably obstinate, it can be judged noncompliant by a vote of convention members, and sanctioned accordingly.