Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business owners and other independent types are sufficiently free from institutional needs to assert their prejudices in the ballot box. After the Goldwater debacle, Buckley started chortling that it is far more important to influence history than to win elections, but, alas, from an historic, as well as political, standpoint. Buckley and company must reconcile themselves to irrelevance...
...survey shows damage and loss well into the thousands of dollars," said Maurice Kilbridge, dean of the Graduate School of Design, in a statement released at 5:30 p.m. "From an educational standpoint, a particular loss is the breakage of demonstration models used to illustrate principles of materials and structural design...
...said that from an administrative standpoint, class balance is especially important. "For instance, in two years. the Senior Tutor and Master at Mather House would have to fill out over 200student recommendations if the sophomore imbalance remains," he added...
From a strictly medical standpoint, skiing makes no sense. "The odds are not with the participant at all," says Orthopedist James Garrick, head of the University of Washington's division of sports medicine. Dr. Garrick is so concerned that he is participating in a conference on ski injuries to be held this week in Aspen, Colo. The agenda includes such abstruse topics as "Rotational Instability and Its Repair" and "The Biomechanics of Tibial Fractures in Skiing...
...threats from demented persons among the extremist wing of the Harvard African and Afro-American Students Association during the Student Strike of April 1969, the Faculty reversed itself. It adopted instead alternative proposals. These proposals, emanating largely from militant black students, were utterly bizarre, from an intellectual and scholarly standpoint. Intellectual and scholarly precepts were thrown to the wind: Negro students were given an authoritative voice in the committees empowered to set up the Afro-American Studies curriculum and in the governance of the department that was ultimately formed in September...