Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Massachusetts can look forward to sharing in everything from their spouse's health and dental insurance plans to their estates after death. Moreover, legalizing gay marriage allows for the adoption of children by homosexuals and their full participation in communal lives as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. We applaud Governor Weld's decision to extend greater measures of freedom and equality to homosexuals...
...have her own Website, Albright understands communication to the point that she calls CNN "the 16th member of the Security Council." She also understands politics well enough to have so charmed Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Jesse Helms that he was among the first to applaud her appointment. And she understands the world like a refugee, a multilingual, multicultural warrior for human rights and democratic principles. "At last," says a former diplomat in the Reagan and Bush State Departments, borrowing from Albright's well-known diatribe against Castro last year, "we have a Secretary of State with cojones...
...seems that in thus naming its department, Macy's has taken a bold step against the prevailing norms of our culture, in which cover models are often anorexic and Cosmopolitan regularly runs articles on how to be 5'6" and 110 pounds. We at Dartboard applaud this supposed attempt to affront societal stereotypes. We wish, however, that we could believe that Macy's did it on purpose...
...that the Undergraduate Council elections are finally over, our council representatives have given us yet another chance to vote on-line: this time, with a referendum on grants to student groups and house committees. We applaud the council's decision to bring such an important and contentious issue to a popular vote--even though it has been delayed a few days--but we urge students to vote no on both questions...
...applaud the City Council's efforts to oppose the shuttle. The grinch has stolen Christmas once; the City Council should not allow U.S. Shuttle to do the same...