Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King aides first told students at the State House session that the Democratic governor would be delayed; later they learned he had left for the day. "We're very disappointed," Jess A. Velona '83, president of the Democratic Club, said. "King's viewpoint was not presented as effectively as it would have been," he added...
Purcell also showed how a rocket launches and what the gas argon would like like from the viewpoint of a molecule using polaroid transparencies and an overhead projector...
...inevitable. A capacity for frustrated idealism rarely lead, to lasting success in Washington. But there is a double sense in which we should be grate ful that Stockman had that capacity. For one thing, idealistic public officials appear infrequently enough to learn our respect regardless of their political viewpoint. But more importantly, Stockman's frustration contributed to his candor; in his case disillusionment was like a truth serum. And that candor, as Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan) noted, was refreshing, particularly so for what it revealed about the legislative process...
Supply-side economics had the common-sense appeal of an old proverb, but nothing guaranteed it would work. Too much American dream, and not enough Studs Terkel, its ideal viewpoint pictured the sort of workplace the country could be, without the realities progress to that state would encounter. The numbers never did add up, and that's what made David Stockman so important. His mission as director of the Office of Management and Budget was to convince an incredulous public and Congress that the numbers would add up even if it didn't look that way. His responsibility clear from...
Koomy emphasizes that "even though it cost them $10,000 I really did learn something from ROTC: I realized that the guys who I had grown up thinking of as mean, ugly, nasty guys were really just normal people doing their job. From that viewpoint, the experience was invaluable...