Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Applause may signal a student's added sense of authority. "A lot of students like to feel that they have control," Tracy Rouse '84, of South House explains. As if to exercise this control, audiences applaud with distinctly different levels of enthusiasm...
...tune when big-city newspapers across the country are in trouble (latest fatality: the Cowles-owned Buffalo Courier-Express, which last week was announced as scheduled to close Sept. 19), newspaper executives are inclined to applaud any new venture in the industry. But as Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson points out, "USA Today's success will be determined by a very tough public and by advertisers looking for the best possible increase in sales." Business Analyst R. Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody and Co. Inc. rates USA Today's chances as "better than even." John Morton...
...high official could also be sued if he acted maliciously. The court reasoned that this change would cut the growing number of such suits. Said the aides' lawyer, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson: "Public officials from school board members to White House advisers, and the public itself," should applaud this decision...
...applaud the U.S. Catholic leadership for the courageous stand it has taken against nuclear weapons. The position of the Catholic bishops only aggravates my shame over the bishops of the United Methodist Church, who either do not see the moral dilemma of the American Christian regarding nuclear weapons or are so cowardly that they refuse to speak...
...Kremlin's leaders had a special reason to applaud this Soviet-trained officer: in their eyes he had saved Poland for Communism by crushing a dangerous "counterrevolution." Visiting Moscow for the first time since the declaration of martial law last December, Jaruzelski received a strong endorsement of his actions and the promise of substantial Soviet assistance in rebuilding Poland's shattered economy...