Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smoking is everyone's problem. I simply do not see smokers as the oppressed minority, as Leib seems to, for smokers infringe upon non-smokers' rights all the time. I heartily applaud the passage of Question One. Amy M. Shimbo...
...fury over his autocratic ways; a group of friends and business associates controls most decisions. Membership is expensive: directors pay $10,000 a year for the privilege, trustees pay $5,000, and 54,000 others tithe regularly like churchgoers. "Only directors can vote, trustees can talk and members can applaud," complains Frank Calzon, the foundation's first executive director...
...writing to applaud Gil Lahav's op-ed titled "A Goyish Election" that appeared on Saturday. Just like Gil, and as a fellow candidate from Quincy House seeking a spot on the Undergraduate Council, I felt extremely disappointed in the unprofessional manner in which the U.C. elections were conducted. Gil's article only refreshed my disappointment...
...applaud these trends, because they stand in healthy contrast to the shamed repudiation of Africa and everything African that dominated our thinking as recently as a generation ago. It was not until the civil rights movement set us on the still unrealized path to first-class American citizenship that we could feel proud enough of ourselves to embrace an ancestral homeland that had long been equated, in our minds and those of whites, with backwardness and degradation...
Just hours after the agreement was reached, President Bush strode into the White House Rose Garden to applaud the pact as "the beginning of a new era." Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari went on early-morning television to praise the deal, while Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called it "an important step forward." Elsewhere the reception was chillier. In Japan, angry trade and auto-industry officials charged that the local-content requirement would force Japanese manufacturers to redesign cars sold in North America and jack up prices...