Word: utilitarian
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With such an objective in mind, the Committee makes expedient and utilitarian judgments in cases of discipline. Though concerned with the consistent administration of principle, it is far more concerned with the preservation of peace. Thus, for what appear as lesser violations, graver punishments can be handed out; the action is justified in that it best serves the continued peaceable function of the University. Though OBU might have seized the Faculty Club, broken into University Hall, and mauled policemen, the consequences of their dismissal would have been too damaging to the University to allow the Committee to take such action...
...percentage losses in this year's tough market. By contrast, compacts have done by far the best, posting an impressive sales increase of 52% last month over January 1969. Imports have increased their share of the market from 11% last year to 14%. The combination of these mostly utilitarian cars and the compacts now accounts for nearly one-third of all autos sold...
...Whatever utilitarian clothes are worn, Gernreich predicts, will be mostly mailorder items "from catalogues or off the television set"; even underwear will become a casualty: "I think that if there is any kind of underwear at all, it will be disposable. We will wear it once and just throw it away...
MAKING things by hand is so time-consuming that a craftsman has to pass his works off as Art. Then people will pay him the high wages accorded to Art, rather than the low wages paid for utilitarian things...
...attitude toward college. To her, the experience of Harvard-Radcliffe, is most important for "the infinite opportunities it offers." She sees college primarily as a set of doors to be utilized, rather than a self-sufficient milieu. And so she chooses to compliment another girl by giving her some utilitarian and unfeminine at tribute: "brilliant," "down to earth," "conscious," "alive," "great" and the like...