Word: commendability
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...actress to see stars. Mostly, however, the gizmo worked amazingly well. Says Lange: "I got very close with the guys who were working the hand. I got so totally relaxed that sometimes I'd go up there and take a nap." Others who worked on the picture commend Lange as a girl as gritty as she is pretty, gamely controlling her natural anxiety at being swept through the air, at considerable height, by an unpredictable and manifestly less-than-perfected contrivance...
...commend you for your editorial of February 24 in which you refused to publish a second publication of an Aramco advertisement for engineers, and you also discussed Saudi policies at length and called it "morally wrong for any corporation in government agency to acquiesce in racism...
...seniors who have gained insight and information from The Harvard Crimson for the past four years, we would like to commend you on the consistency of your reporting, especially the investigative reporting. We are constantly amazed at some of the findings that The Crimson so diligently and faithfully reports. Especially exciting is the daily column known as "Corrections...
That seems hyperbolic; Ford's plan has much to commend it. Inheritance taxes now place a disproportionate hardship on small estates, partly because it is often hard to appraise the true value of small farms and businesses. Another reason: the tax schedule is not very progressive. The current average effective rate on a $300,000 estate is about 10%; the effective rate on a $1 million estate is less than double that-about...
...from it in the first place. Speaking personally, my semester at Harvard was both enjoyable and satisfying, but I came here with my eyes open, not expecting immortal truths and revelations to fall into my lap every time I shook the academic tree. It is an attitude I heartily commend to all incoming freshmen for, as a sage old British friend once told me, "The only place one is likely to find the Philosopher's Stone is in the gallbladder of a bilious pedant." What I sought during my stay at Harvard was not Veritas (how many of us would...