Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reports that thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Bosnian Serbs near Srebrenica helped trigger NATO's peacekeeping mission. TIME's Massimo Calabresi says that while this week's action is mostly exploratory, the involvement of U.S. troops is significant. "People who have criticized the IFOR mission will certainly applaud whatever role U.S. troops undertake in guarding the war crime tribunal investigators." While this may be a first step in U.S. involvement in arresting indicted war criminals, Calabresi says any arrests are still a long way off. "It is significantly more complicated to launch an arrest operation than to provide...
...applaud the efforts of those students who protested the xenophobic proposals made by Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) during a speech at the Institute of Politics last week. In calling for 20 percent reductions in legal immigration levels each year for the next five years, Simpson disrespects our national immigrant heritage...
...survive in America, then this country's leadership must treat the greater populace with the proper respect due to citizens. So long as the position of middle-class Americans cannot be credibly portrayed as threatened by immigration, then this country's borders will remain open to legal immigrants. We applaud the committee in the House of Representatives for splitting HR 2202 into two separate bills dealing with legal and illegal immigrants. According to the Urban Institute, 95 percent of non-refugee immigrants never go on welfare, and legal immigrants contribute $25 billion more in taxes than they take away...
...Harvard College continues to flounder in the mires of grade inflation, we applaud the Law School for setting stricter limits on the number of students who graduate with honors...
Throughout the speeches, members shouted encouraging words and frequently rose to applaud. "Standing ovations are a dime a dozen here," whispered a congregant...