Word: commend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commend Harvard for reasserting its traditional responsibilities at BCH. Harvard's decision not to withdraw immediately will safeguard the hospital's daily operations. Any other decision by Harvard, regardless of its long-term intentions, would be grave disservice to current Boston health care needs. We recommend that B.U. activity seek to maintain Harvard's and Tufts's current levels of activity...
...predisposed to schizophrenia, especially if it is used simultaneously with other powerful drugs. Some of the effects may resemble those that result from physical damage to the brain. In any case, heavy use leads to severe lung damage. While moderate hashish use by normal individuals has nothing to commend it, the report suggests, the effects are neither permanent nor seriously damaging...
...must commend Robert Hughes' Essay. I too have observed the slow cultural suicide of Italy. The destruction of Italian art is a disaster because it is one of the few human creations with universal appeal. Unlike the beer can-disposable, faddish art of today, a Bernini or Leonardo has a unique, timeless quality...
...commend your article on the right to die, "Specialty for Losers" [March 13]. However, I do protest the term losers. At 87 I am, like Dr. Poe, old enough to figure how I'd like to be treated. I feel that I am a winner and that my victory would be marred by any inappropriate delay in presenting the award...
...CONTINUE to question the reasoning behind Professor Herrnstein's article on I.Q. and to question his discretion in publishing the article as he did when the extension and misapplication of his theories is of such crucial importance. We continue to commend the members of SDS and the University Action Group and all others who have helped to raise the issues which are irrevocably bound up with the acceptance or the rejection of Professor Herrnstein's theories. We continue to urge critical appraisal of Professor Herrnstein's article, as well as the public challenging of ideas which may lead...