Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretext to take over the country or to launch a surprise attack against Israel. But last spring, after Syria gave private assurances to the U.S. that its intervention in Lebanon was not aimed at Israel, Jerusalem relaxed and began to enjoy the situation. Israeli officials now quietly applaud Syrian President Hafez Assad's aims in Lebanon as modest and constructive; a year ago he was routinely described in Israel as a fanatical...
...should applaud the development of health insurance mechanisms that have protected the patient from financial disaster. We can decry the fact that health insurance is a misnomer (it is disease insurance) and that so little effort and emphasis have been placed within the insurance system on the maintenance of health...
...applaud the activities of the National Institutes of Mental Health. We should decry the meager sums of money available for research in mental illness, which represents the nation's primary public health problem...
Tumbling across the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House are 175 assorted singers, dancers, musicians, mimes-even a troupe of Eskimos-all belonging to Igor Moiseyev's Russian Festival of Music and Dance. Audiences applaud their colorful costumes and boisterous folk art, especially the Ukrainians' vigorous squat jumps and the male toe dancers of the Georgian State Dance Theater...
...themselves with the kind of direct involvement that only leads to confrontation. But take the situation in Namibia. Take the situation in Zimbabwe. As far as the West is concerned, after Angola, the Russians and the Cubans can't go into Zimbabwe and other countries. But Africans would applaud them if they walked in tomorrow. It doesn't matter what the color of their skin is. We were pleasantly surprised to see [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger in his Lusaka speech taking a position for the liberation of southern Africa. In that area there has never been...