Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Even Republicans who applaud that result often concede that the escalating spending is undermining the political process. It tends to confine political office to candidates who are either independently wealthy or willing to sell their votes to the proliferating political action committees (PACs) of special-interest groups. These two types often are really one. It has become standard procedure for a rich candidate to lend huge sums to his campaign from his personal fortune, then stage fund-raising parties after the election at which he solicits funds from PACS to repay himself. Says Edward Roeder, compiler of a directory, PACs...
...squirrels and formed into rests. What's going on here? Which is the subject and which is the verb? It's unclear what this grammar trick does to advance the poem--maybe Axinn merely wants us to applaud his cleverness...
Although Gingerich says he doesn't alter his presentations based on the amount of applause he receives, he still believes that applause constructs "a system of checks and balances...my students are reluctant to applaud when I run overtime...