Word: beyond
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Only after cutting its ranks drastically will the council be able to look beyond its role as a student group grant provider and focus on other goals. Council leadership has rightly endorsed the downsizing bill, but the measure failed to pass the last time it was proposed, voted down by diehard members eager to preserve their own positions but caring little for the fate of the council. More money for student groups is a step in the right direction, but downsizing is the ultimate answer to a serious credibility problem...
...article "Moving Beyond the Spotted Owl," (March 18) Yuri Agrawal asks "whether the natural world has any value in and of itself, divorced from any utility to the human species." It may be argued that to divide humanity from the rest of the natural world is antithetical to the cause of environmentalism, which seeks to include humans in its calculus, as a part and parcel of the complex processes that drive natural systems. But apart from the emotional "tree-huggers" and "rainbow children" whose goal is caricatured as a return to some form of noble savagery, there appears...
...council, while disappointed that the property had been sold for an amount of money beyond the city's means, was also unwilling to kiss it goodbye. They decided to write a letter to the buyer explaining the unique nature of the property in hopes that the plans might be reconsidered...
...article "Moving Beyond the Spotted Owl,"(March 18) Yuri Agrawal asks "whether the natural world has any value in and of itself, divorced from any utility to the human species." It may be argued that to divide humanity from the rest of the natural world is antithetical to the cause of environmentalism, which seeks to include humans in its calculus, as a part and parcel of the complex processes that drive natural systems. But apart from the emotional "tree-huggers" and "rainbow children" whose goal is caricatured as a return to some form of noble savagery, there appears...
...anyone imagine that the richest, most handsomely endowed University in the world has lost its sense of caring, its sense of decency, its sense of purpose, and its vision as a whole and can't see beyond the pennies it's trying to hoard. James Sullivan is a Harvard University security guard...