Word: commend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commend you for your presentation of the "Nature vs. Nurture" debate. Few people take the time to do their homework and present the results in an organized manner. But it is not without the customary journalistic bias that you write...
...houses are surrounded by luxuriant clumps of bamboo and persimmon. Hundreds of teen-agers work at a prosperous collective silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune was no Potemkin...
...import of these facts is that (a) the incidents last week created a serious danger of violence, and (b) the underlying problem of tensions between gay people and others may be a severe and deep-rooted one. I commend The Crimson for avoiding the sensationalism that could only aggravate existing tensions. By omitting crucial facts, however, The Crimson gives a misleading impression that the problem has been settled. Sad to say, it is unlikely that the issues raised by the events of last weekend will be resolved by the measure, however unprecedented, of one man's public apology...
...pressure on the public treasuries is such, she warns, that an increase in federal funds to private institutions is unlikely in the near future. Correspondingly, Hufstedler takes a pragmatic tack, revealing the common sense judgement her associates commend. "People want the federal role to increase all over the place when it comes to the matter of having federal funds that can be directed by the universities and colleges," she says. "In short, what a lot of people want is perfectly human--'please send me a check but no strings." Well, you can't have it both ways...