Word: applaudable
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...statement that resisters should see the new law as somehow "sharpening" the moral issues, and therefore not protest, is absurd. Civil rights activists in the South did not applaud when a government instituted some new racist measure on top of those already in force. Neither will non-registrants see this law as anything other than further evidence of the Reagan Administration's militarism, to be abhorred no less than the call to registration itself...
Though a Lutheran seminarian, I applaud the Catholic bishops for challenging U.S. nuclear policy. It is time that religion and ethics were brought back into public discourse...
...applaud Elizabeth Taylor's legal suit against ABC'S proposed docudrama of her life [Nov. 8]. When I watch these TV hybrids, I am so concerned with sorting fact from fiction that I can't enjoy the show...
...Yale University, an institution of nearly equal reputation and academic quality as Harvard, the administration took it upon itself, before the need became acute, to pledge financial support and full compensation for any government aid lost because of their refusal to register for the draft. We of HRSSR applaud Yale's decision and strongly urge Harvard to adopt a similar policy...
...seen as less interested in blaming anyone than in having something done about the situation. They want unemployment alleviated, the recession ended, the huge deficits curtailed-and they want this done without refueling inflation. That is a tall order, of course, but far from a controversial one. All politicians applaud those goals; the problem is how to reach them...