Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applaud people who are interested in providing housing for those earning less than $23,000 but the land bank ought to retain a certain amount of flexibility," says Daniel J. Wuenschal, executive director of the Cambridge Housing Authority...
...that characterize the leadership of many other Arab states. His decisiveness appeals to those Arabs who dream of pan- Arab unification and worship Arab dignity. They see in Saddam a modern-day answer to the leadership vacuum opened by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They also applaud his unwavering hostility toward those whom he perceives as enemies, especially Israel. "Saddam fulfills the ambitions of the Arab people," says Ahmed al-Yaamani, a businessman who like thousands of other Jordanians, registered last week with a popular committee to fight for Iraq against the U.S. "He is a hero...
...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 blue book, 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 seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...Many people applaud President F.W. de Klerk for making courageous reforms, but you as a fellow Afrikaner seem to regard him as a traitor...
...poor-mouthing has not stopped. A year ago, Bush visited Poland to applaud reform there. Solidarity wanted $10 billion in Western aid. Bush responded with a little more than $100 million, or about 1 cents per dollar requested. "That's all we can afford," explained the leader of the free world and the richest nation on earth...