Word: standpoint
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From an offensive standpoint, the second half was about as exciting as a rerun of MASH. Princeton senior Samantha Sacks added a meaningless goal in the middle of a cornerkick melee. But Harvard didn't pour any more salt on the Tiger's wounds and left the final insult...
...that Vonnegut's voice has ever been very difficult to discern in any of his books. His own unapologetically leftwing, anti-technology standpoint is abundantly clear in each one of his savagely ironic novels. In Timequake, though, he gives it full throttle, often ranting about modern America for chapters on end without returning to the world of Kilgore Trout, his fictitious "other self...
...That still doesn't mean there's a case. "The law itself is murky," McAllister says. Gore made the calls, and some of the money did indeed go into hard-money accounts instead of soft. But from a legal standpoint, there's still no strong evidence that Gore knew where the money was headed ? or that the calls themselves might be illegal. "Unless something new comes up, I don't see much likelihood that this will lead to an independent counsel," he says. "No prosecutor would try a case as thin as this. The only reason is that...
...Some of the [upperclass] houses did already have women in them, but from an official standpoint this was an important moment," said Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
From a managing standpoint, McDonald's is making a difficult transition. This is a company that is used to crushing the competition. Now, its markets mature, it is finding every sales dollar harder to come by. Greenberg is reportedly planning a restructuring that would embrace this reality and make the corporate side more responsive to the folks who sell the hamburgers. And Campaign 55 is just the first volley in what will be a long war. McDonald's does have some advantages, Greenberg points out, not least of which is one of the most powerful brands in the world...