Word: commendable
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...commend TIME for addressing the vitally important subject of U.S. immigration policy. Comprehensive immigration reform must be enacted promptly. Not only are employer sanctions needed to deter the immense flow of illegal aliens to the U.S., but some overall limit on legal immigration also must be established. Otherwise the U.S. will face the same overpopulation-related problems now so obvious in the countries from which most immigrants are coming. M. Rupert Cutler, Executive Director The Environmental Fund Washington...
...commend them,” Yu noted, “but we’re definitely looking forward to meeting them again...
...formalities out of the way and to encourage interaction between freshmen. But freshman week is not quite sufficient in helping freshmen to jump-start their Harvard careers. As Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 takes over as Dean of Freshmen this fall, we commend the College and the Freshman Orientation Advisory Committee (FOAC) for reexamining freshman week, and we offer a few suggestions of how to make freshman week—and, perhaps, the entire freshman year—more useful in acclimating new students to Harvard. As it stands now, freshman week provides...
...commend the recent contract signed by German Education and Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn in Jakarta on March 14 to install an early-warning system, designed by Germany’s largest research institution, the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers. The system will be effective in registering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis and is estimated to cost Germany’s national research center for geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, roughly 45 million Euro ($60.3 million), a paltry price to pay for the potential lives that will be saved by this early alert system...
...long, Americans have uncritically accepted inaccurate arguments and sound-bite explanations for what is unquestionably the most serious problem facing our future. Environmental destruction, terrorism and a host of other problems are rooted in world poverty, but sadly we pretend there is nothing that can be done. I commend your magazine for providing informed, well-written and easily understandable arguments to help dispel those illusions. Well done...