Word: applauding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bankers have good reason to applaud the Witteveen facility: it will at least relieve both them and their international borrowers of a burden that is swiftly becoming a threat. Lately, private banks have taken on much of the job of recycling the enormous surpluses piled up by oil-exporting nations. Total debts owed by governments to major commercial banks ballooned from $110 billion in 1969 to $550 billion last year. Now the banks are reaching the ceiling of their willingness to lend to troubled nations-and countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Zaire may be nearing...
...welcome their attitudes and applaud the kind of standards they have set for the profession...
...strained relationship with the Jewish community is not beyond repair. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: "There is apprehension. But there is no confrontation yet. In fact, there is gratitude and satisfaction with some aspects of Administration policy." Jewish leaders applaud Carter's strong stand on Soviet dissidents, on free emigration from Russia, on the antiboycott legislation. Carter has also increased economic aid to Israel by $400 million. Growing doubts have apparently not caused Jewish leaders to tighten their purse strings. Tickets are selling briskly...
...this belies the important issue that is implicit in the article. Rather than applaud the advance in knowledge or the contribution to humankind made by the California scientists, the unnamed Harvard scientists choose to bemoan the fact that they did not get there first. The pursuit of knowledge still plays second fiddle to the competitive nature of science. No doubt we will someday see. The Double Helix--Part II. Biological research in our society is a big business; it is fiercely competitive. All competitive ventures require rules and the Cambridge City Council voted to insure fair play...
...social scientists who perpetrate this kind of scientific nonsense are hardly more than ideologues who, alas, pretend that all usage of stereotypes in creative works is invalid on its face, while of course celebrating those usages favorable to their own ideological predilections. Thus they would be the first to applaud or rationalize the stereotypes in the TV version of "Roots...