Word: commend
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hand, we commend the valiance of the enlisted personel in Saudi Arabia. On the other, we tell members of our own community who are inspired, or simply willing enough to pledge the same sense of loyalty to the U.S., to hustle over to MIT, surreptitiously and without complaint...
...should commend them, and not discard a whole program because of something beyond its control; it is the military's inflexibility that prohibits ROTC from accepting gays and lesbians. We should voice our dissent and dissatisfaction with this policy--without damaging the rest of a valuable program and the patriotism of its participants...
...first Harvard undergraduate to commend the Organization for the Advancement of Sexual Minorities (ORGASM) for its crusade to "cover the campus with positive sex-positive imagery," and thereby show the world that Harvard is not going to be intimidated by a small cabal of ultra-conservative facists attempting to censor art that they deem "pornographic" or "immoral...
...accusations that Father Gigante's nonprofit group doled out tens of millions of dollars in government housing grants to Genovese-tied subcontractors. The priest claims he had nothing to do with the selection of these companies. "I purposely stayed out of it," he says. But the priest does commend one contractor, a Genovese captain who is now imprisoned: "If you would talk to work forces in the South Bronx, you would also get a lot of praise...
Professor Davis' letter is profoundly disturbing in two respects. First, it does not represent Social Studies accurately: I commend to Professor Davis his own injunction about "facts and the dreary methods required to determine them." Taking advantage of the vulnerability of graduate students to the views of senior faculty in their field, it seeks to intimidate those who might want to teach in another concentration with real intellectual value. This is an affront to the longstanding commitment of the University itself to academic freedom, community and liberal education...