Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation," Teichert said."While initial installation costs can be high, theamount invested can be achieved between the energysavings and future labor cost savings in arelatively short pay back period. [Brown's]calculations from a financial standpoint show arate of return of at least 20 percent...
Overuse of antibiotics has accelerated the evolution of superbugs, and hospitals, in particular, are major breeding grounds. For decades, surgeons and internists have fought infections in some extremely ill patients with massive doses of antibiotics, and when one drug didn't work, they tried another and another. From the standpoint of their individual patients, the physicians could do no better. The consequences for society as a whole, however, are troubling. Stubborn strains of bacteria resistant to many different antibiotics have taken up permanent residence in hospitals around the world. Experts predict that the effectiveness of widely active antibiotic agents such...
...book challenges our assumptions about how these images work. As a political Black feminist who boldly declares herself an enemy of America's "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy," hooks speaks from standpoint truly oppositional to most mainstream thought. She tirelessly interrogates the institutions most people take for granted. As she writes in her introduction, these essays are "gestures of defiance...find[ing] words that express what I see, especially when I am looking in ways that move against the grain, when I seeing things that most folks want to simply believe are not there...
...world's greater understatements, Bunting's architectural book notes that "the Science Center is not entirely satisfactory from a visual standpoint." Designed in 1970, the building was financed largely by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation. Many a Harvard student have peered out a Canaday window, trying to locate the building's flash and shutter...
...problem, Rudenstine said, is that peerslack the institutional authority to drive hometheir recommendations, making any decision by astudent board suspect from a legal standpoint--andthus subject to a court appeal...