Word: laud
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...years after this gender-based decision, the magazine The Art Amateur would remark, “There is nothing that men do that is not done by women now in Boston.” The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston took this quotation as a cue to laud the woman artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In its most recent exhibit, “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,” the MFA draws from its own collections, as well as private collections to show the Boston public...
That Kennecott can moonlight as a land developer is an extreme example of how new pressures affect the mining business. While analysts uniformly laud Rio Tinto as the standard-bearer for industry responsibility, that's not a standard others agree with. "The corporate poster child for environmental and social abuses" is the way Joshua Karliner of Corp Watch describes Rio Tinto's global activities...
...Most people seem to like the Koizumi they see. What's not to like about this touchy-feely New Age leader who is the antithesis of the stiff old pols who preceded him? Economists at home and abroad laud the clear-eyed reformer who recognizes that the system stinks?and says he will take a sledgehammer to it. Fellow world leaders wish they had his approval ratings, which stand at about 70%. "Whatever you're doing," George W. Bush told Koizumi during his July visit to Camp David, "I envy those numbers." The Japanese can't get enough...
...following his resignation, the Crimson editorial staff turned from its typical criticism of Harvard football to laud Bingham's commitment to amateur ideals...
...laud you for trying to reconstruct your country," said Masuda Bundu, a Congolese man in the audience. "But there are over two million people dead [in Congo], most of them children. That is a genocide, and a greater one than that in Rwanda. Since the Congo did not attack you, why do you have the right to do this...