Word: applauding
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Even Republicans who applaud that result often concede that the escalating spending is undermining the political process. It tends to confine political office to candidates who are either independently wealthy or willing to sell their votes to the proliferating political action committees (PACs) of special-interest groups. These two types often are really one. It has become standard procedure for a rich candidate to lend huge sums to his campaign from his personal fortune, then stage fund-raising parties after the election at which he solicits funds from PACS to repay himself. Says Edward Roeder, compiler of a directory, PACs...
...squirrels and formed into rests. What's going on here? Which is the subject and which is the verb? It's unclear what this grammar trick does to advance the poem--maybe Axinn merely wants us to applaud his cleverness...
Applause may signal a student's added sense of authority. "A lot of students like to feel that they have control," Tracy Rouse '84, of South House explains. As if to exercise this control, audiences applaud with distinctly different levels of enthusiasm...
Although Gingerich says he doesn't alter his presentations based on the amount of applause he receives, he still believes that applause constructs "a system of checks and balances...my students are reluctant to applaud when I run overtime...
...tune when big-city newspapers across the country are in trouble (latest fatality: the Cowles-owned Buffalo Courier-Express, which last week was announced as scheduled to close Sept. 19), newspaper executives are inclined to applaud any new venture in the industry. But as Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson points out, "USA Today's success will be determined by a very tough public and by advertisers looking for the best possible increase in sales." Business Analyst R. Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody and Co. Inc. rates USA Today's chances as "better than even." John Morton...