Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through these past few months in some ways feminists should applaud, missing only a few days at her law firm, Cummings & Lockwood, and finding comfort in working late with her partners (some of whom are her best friends). The crease between her eyebrows that gives her a fierce demeanor disappears when she talks about the weekend in Paris she begins the next...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...applaud President Clinton for his December 5 appointment of Madeline K. Albright as the first femal secretary of state. After her hard work as the United States ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the National Security Council, Albright was the clear choice to succeed Warren Christopher as our nation's highest foreign policy adviser...
Additionally, we applaud the efforts of both Israeli and Palestinian forces to arrest the attacker and to prevent a potentially explosive situation from escalating. It is upon this sort of cooperation that peace can be built...
...provoke in us click responses, the sort of electronic-entertainment reaction we twitch and jerk to more often lately. We hear Not even close, He's history or What's wrong with this picture?, and we immediately sense the power structure of the moment. In fact, we may subconsciously applaud such speakers because they've hypertexted our little lives right into Friends, Seinfeld or the "I love you, man" ads, and for a moment, at least, we know perfectly how to relate to people, deal with conflict and banish discomfort. Not being in control--that's our real worst nightmare...