Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter may have been sensible from the standpoint of an executive who must get along with the Arabs, but as could easily have been predicted, it was a public-relations disaster. Californians promptly began a grass-roots boycott of Standard's Chevron gas stations. A group of 30 pickets, including several Jews for Jesus, marched outside Standard's San Francisco headquarters; some advocated burning Chevron credit cards. One night bags of red dye, symbolizing blood, were spattered against the headquarters building; an anonymous caller told the Associated Press that the act was designed to get Standard to retract...
...wheeling exposition by Dean or a thorough examination by the committee, which also hopes to get John Mitchell on camera before this week is out. Dean was to first spin out his story in a 156-page statement that could take up to six hours to read. From his standpoint, the only advantage in the week's delay and the White House-inspired leaks was that his memory of some talks with the President had been refreshed, his presentation further honed. "It's an even more devastating paper now than it would have been a week earlier," claimed...
Resign Demands. William Loeb, the ultra-conservative publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, joined the growing although still small group of those demanding that Nixon resign. "Looking at it from a perfectly coldblooded, hardheaded standpoint," Loeb wrote, "Mr. Nixon has destroyed his credibility and his support, not just with the left wing, but with the average American. They have no confidence in his ability or his skill. They see him as a discredited bungler...
...continue after his Spring 1972 running battle with graduate students over financial aid. His replacement, Edward T. Wilcox, then head of General Education, was named acting director; it is no secret that the popular Wilcox, who handled the annual graduate student crisis well this year (from an Administration standpoint), may earn the permanent spot...
...wish to say that from a police standpoint, the City of Shreveport is greatly benefited by its being here. It has practically eliminated the bootlegger who deals in narcotics, and in this way alone has reduced the number of possible future dope users...