Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these reasons we applaud the decision of the Law School Administrative Board to reprimand Michael Anderson. This reprimand, which according to Anderson may damage his career, is the sort of punishment Harvard troublemakers, from 1969 to the present, have always feared the most: discipline which may jeopardize a student's future prospects...
Consumer groups, however, were not ready to applaud. "That's a good first step, but they haven't gone far enough," said Marla Kaplan, associate director of Bankcard Holders of America, a consumer advice service that claims some 100,000 members. "It's time rates came down still farther." Alan Fox, chief lobbyist for the Consumer Federation of America, said cardholders could save $500 million a year if the average credit rate dropped to 17.1%. A recent federation study estimated that consumers spend a whopping $6 billion a year in interest on purchases made with bank cards...
...least, he didn't seem entirely comfortable in front of 10,000 newly made fans in Portland, Me., last Monday. He let them applaud for five minutes at a stretch before proceeding with the songs. He called one of them a "jerk" for throwing a potentially lethal t-shirt at him as he started "Money For Nothing." And, with the exception of a couple minutes of premeditated camp, he generally did his best to ignore the lot of them...
...cases of the three government professors have apparently not tarnished Harvard's reputation among academics across the country, and many applaud the University for its professional handling of sexual harassment...
...reason to applaud this is that it simply supports the idea that the public has some right to influence what goes on around them," Crouch said. But the risk assessment specialist said he believed the threat was minimal...