Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although I scored more points my sophomore year," says Parrot, "this season has been the most productive from a team standpoint. We are much more balanced, and as a result have a better record...
...just what's wrong with you people anyway? After the recent events in Viet Nam you should be dancing in the streets. From a military standpoint it's the dumbest move the Commies could have made. For over two years now, your boys have been poking behind trees and down holes in the ground looking for Charlie, and Charlie has been found only when he wanted to be found and when conditions were all in his favor. Now he has very obligingly congregated in the heart of the cities and sits there waiting to be wiped...
...which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society. There may be some students at Harvard, perhaps on occasion even a stray faculty member, who in a moment of rage and frustration might feel like tearing the university limb from limb. From the standpoint of a commitment to human freedom such feelings are by no means totally irrational, because the universities do much more to sustain destructive trends--through the contribution of professional skills to the war and in numerous other ways -- than any amount of verbal criticism or even reasoned exposure...
...script," allowed House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, "is a good one from our standpoint." Indeed, the plot that he laid out was compelling, if not exactly original. It called for G.O.P. Representatives and their Southern Democratic allies to deny Lyndon Johnson his request for an unpopular tax increase, beat every tom-tom and kettledrum for economy, and force the President to take responsibility for specific spending cuts. The House last week voted 238 to 164 to do just that...
...function of the students will be to go into homes of Cambridge voters and make available literature explaining the standpoint of the committee. It was emphasized that the CNCV does not advocate the hard sell, and that it is the job of the students only to present to the voters facts on which they can base their vote...