"I would say that a lot of people from an operation and a working standpoint seem to feel pretty good about the B.C.S. as it exists," Swofford said.
Not bad – from a Protestant work ethic standpoint, at least.
"I'm working from the standpoint of the children, not the technology," he says.
From a practical standpoint, working in teams with such multitude of expertise and constituencies may sometimes yield merely incremental progress rather than new and unexpected ideas.
Asked about the Democrats' motive, Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, chairman of the Budget Committee, who first suggested the $60 billion cut for the current year, said: "Whatever they're trying to do, it isn't going to work -- from the standpoint of passing or from the standpoint of helping the economy.
"On the other hand, from a social standpoint, sex work is still really taboo".
"It's not about necessarily needing to work from a financial standpoint, but it's not the perspective we take with them," Rothstein Murman said.
The definitive statement of Watson's position appears in another major work, Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist (1919), in which he sought to extend the principles and methods of comparative psychology to the study of human beings and staunchly advocated the use of conditioning in research.
"Der Zwerg," a more substantial work from a dramatic standpoint, is a number opera: the colors of the Spanish court coming through in Baroque-styled dances, juxtaposed with a couple of big, anti-love duets in which the dwarf's love innocently confronts the Infanta's mockery.
And while it may seem to convey a message about the tedium and conformity of industrial labour, he tells Guardian Australia he is "not a political artist, although people are at liberty to interpret my work from a political standpoint … I'm interested in the universal circumstances of human life".
