Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there any role for the public in ethical, social or environmental discussions of the science and technology being placed into our culture?" Rifkin asks. "Is the proper role of the public only to applaud the claims of scientists? Is that our only role? Or is our role to be informed and engaged in the process? My impression is that the scientific establishment has had a free ride until recently. Even with the mistakes that we might make, we're opening up the process of debate around some of the most important things in our lives. We're opening up science...
...Washington, State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said: "We applaud Civic Forum for its commitment to peaceful transformation to democracy...
Halfway through an 18-day re-election campaign, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez finds himself attacked on several fronts. Once friendly trade unions complain that the Socialist leader has forsaken his party's traditional ideology by freezing social benefits and allowing 16% unemployment. Businessmen, who still applaud Gonzalez's successful campaign to attract foreign investment and reduce inflation, now fret about high interest rates and a growing trade deficit...
...federal courthouse in Atlanta early Thursday, where at a preliminary hearing U.S. Magistrate Joel M. Feldman read a thick list of charges accusing him of laundering millions of dollars for the cartel. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 30 years in prison. In Washington officials were exultant. "I applaud the extraordinary courage of President Virgilio Barco and the government of Colombia in their effort to restore the rule of law," said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh...
...British sent all kinds of boats. Big ones, little ones, paddle steamers, yachts, everything. It was gorgeous weather, hot and beautiful. Guys were lying on the dunes, shirts off, watching the combat between the British and German fighters. When they'd see a German fighter go down, they'd applaud...