Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves as a great environmental tragedy. Sooner or later we have to realize that under well-controlled conditions, atomic fuel is environmentally the most acceptable source of energy today. Any further reliance on the present "supertanker mentality" is not only dangerous to the environment but, from the national security standpoint, foolhardy. James Scott, M.D. Streator...
Although Brigadier General Walter Ulmer Jr. has been in disagreement with the cadet lawyers concerning many matters, it has been from a professional standpoint, and he has been a man of true honor throughout this difficult time for the academy and the Army. My father is not a man of ambition but one of duty, honor and country. I do not understand how West Point, the Army or the U.S. could ask for anything more...
...write from the standpoint of a small democracy addressing itself to the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. I write, too, from the standpoint of a people that sees in the American idea and value system a reflection of its own heritage...
...Jiryis' visa was not renewed because his application falsely indicated that he had been born in the Sudan, whose passport he carries. The State Department added, however, that "from a foreign policy standpoint, we do not believe it a propitious moment for the P.L.O. to establish an office in Washington...
...Concert Band launched into Giovanni Gabrieli's brief Canzon septimi toni No. 2 (1597) for brass ensemble. Gabrieli designed the work as open-air music for Venice's Piazzi San Marco. The canzon is a work which really has a vocal-fugal style but is played instrumentally. From this standpoint the concert band evoked the antiphonal character of the piece effectively, with strong modulations and an acute sense of tone color...