Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summer emphasized that he was not legally bound to accept the tickets, but that he did not want to create ill will. "The affair has been most unsatisfactory from my standpoint throughout," he said, "quite unlike a successful similar experiment last summer...
Faculty exercise, however, may be expensive from a physical standpoint. Norman W. Fradd, Director of Physical Training, declined to comment on the general physical condition of faculty athletes, but he was careful to mention that he "used to have a conditioning class for the faculty on Tuesdays and Thursdays, four or five years...
Although he and his staff have been forced to spend three extra days each week handling ticket applications, Lunden said that the new athletic cardeased ticket processing by eliminating lines and giving his office a check on every ticket. "From the accounting standpoint, it gives us perfect control," he added...
From a political standpoint, such a move is unnecessary. The Russians could never push Communist leaf-lets through UNESCO presses. The West has an over-whelming majority in the group, and even with the most rigid discipline, Communist delegates could not control policy. Nor need the West counter any propaganda seeping in from Moscow. Working in the cultural field, UNESCO offers little opportunity for the sensationalism which marks General Assembly debates. Partisan speeches on non-political subjects have held little interest for the global audience...
Size, however, has its problems as well as its rewards. From a political standpoint, G.M. offers a tempting target. In the last two years under Curtice, while G.M.'s share of the auto market has risen from 41.7% to 49.9% (and Ford's has gone from 22.8% to 30.8%), Chrysler's share has plummeted from 21.3% to 13.5%. The former independents, which in 1952 accounted for 13.2% of auto sales, have dropped this year to 5.8%. Studebaker and Packard, Kaiser and Willys, and Nash and Hudson have had to team up to stay in business...