21.   The fact that the project now enjoys the backing of Syria, which also shares the waters of Yarmouk, deserves our applause.

22.   The music industry deserves applause for deciding in the past couple of years to honor its achievers with albums of Grammy nominees.

23.   They deserved the applause.

24.   A KAL spokesman said the pilots also deserved applause for quickly opening all the escape chutes.