Word: lauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sought from sources as disparate as farm price supports and "non-means-tested" veterans' medical coverage. Middle-class goodies, especially student aid, will feel the pinch as well, while much of the savings in Medicare are even now being realized by a cost-cutting incentive program which most experts laud as the most beneficial government program in decades. In short, while many particular ones are set to be gored, Reagan's oft-cited onslaught against the "safety net" just isn't happening...
...laud Elizabethan splendor...
...their new leader that the 1,500 members of the Supreme Soviet, the country's nominal parliament, heard last week as they gathered in the Great Kremlin Palace. Speaking in a mellifluous if slightly nervous baritone, the Politburo's youngest member, Mikhail Gorbachev, went on to laud Chernenko as "a tested leader of the Leninist type" and a man of "outstanding political and organizational abilities and immense life experience." The delegates hardly needed the glowing accolades to be persuaded of Chernenko's virtues. No sooner had Gorbachev finished his brief nominating speech than all hands...
Despite the questionable benefits from the proposed rise, no visible opposition has mounted, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is trying to boost his image by selling his tough anti-drunk driving package to his younger constituents. Students, along with everyone else, should laud him for the beefing up of roadblocks and bolstering of educational programs he has already done. But they should put the heat on him to oppose the illogical plan which insults them without offering a significant benefit...
...self-appraisal, Wheat hesitantly responds, "I'm not an expert on everything, but I'm able to understand most things once I get the information." The freshman Congressman from Missouri's Fifth District, which embraces most of Kansas City, is unduly modest. His colleagues laud him as bright and able. His sense of humor is self-deprecatory, but Wheat, 31, a member of the powerful Rules Committee, takes his job seriously. Says an aide to House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "He worries about things like industrial policy...