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...dollars in both tangible as well as intangible ways for not doing it and these costs will continue to escalate. So, just as we spent $17 billion for the GI Bill after World War II, the figures now show that the return is around $25 billion, from the standpoint of their ability to pay higher taxes, the skills that they have developed, the contributions they have made...
...Wilkinson, a black psychiatrist and executive director of the Kansas City Mental Health Foundation. "But it's a question whether they are really pathological or simply adaptive. If judged by the majority of the prevailing culture, they could be called pathological. But from the black person's standpoint, they have been patterns he has had to use to make it." It is scarcely paranoid, for instance, for the black to distrust and fear the white society. Says Dr. William Malamud Jr., a white psychiatrist in Boston: "What's labeled as pathology is very often psychic health...
Everett Walters, vice president for Academie Affairs, said yesterday that, for students. the strike was a success "from the standpoint of an educational venture." He announced a meeting for March 12 of student. faculty, and administration representatives for further discussion of student demands as they related to student participation in university decision-making...
...with his impressive credentials. Rising to speak during one of his first appearances in the city, T'ao modestly confessed he had just arrived and had little experience in Cantonese affairs. But, he said, seizing on his own introduction, experience wouldn't solve Canton's problems. It was class standpoint that had to be improved. He urged-here was the clincher-that all the lower level cadres criticize those superiors who had protected landlords...
...should study the past the way we might visit a foreign country. Good travel brings one to perceive life from another standpoint...