Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very strict criteria, we found 15 children with residual deformities that cannot be surgically aided anywhere in Vietnam. But we saw a total of 273 war-injured children, and 1176 adults, which, to me, is a terrible number of people being injured," Dr. Constable said...
...competent professionals. Involved in the process are not the sole efforts of any one profession, but rather the blending and combined efforts of the planner, the architect, the sociologist, and the highway planner to name a few." Almost everything in its report contradicts the logic of this rhetoric; the criteria the DPW relied upon are almost exclusively those of the highway engineer...
...high criteria require that there be less than one chance in 10,000 that a single living microorganism be aboard an unmanned spacecraft designed to land on a planet. To comply, the U.S. plans to seal its Mars-bound Voyager landing capsule in a canister and bake it for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257 °F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms within the solid metal structures of the spacecraft. Aware that sterilization of some early Ranger moonships damaged spacecraft systems and led to the failure of missions, scientists are spending time...
...manifested itself also, strangely enough, in the growth among many Americans of a peculiar emotional and sentimental preoccupation with China and the Asian mainland--a preoccupation quite divorced from considerations of real national interest. And it manifested itself also in a curious enthusiasm for the establishment of legalistic criteria for the solution of international problems...
...person cannot be portrayed, the question of which is the best portrait becomes as complicated as the question of who we are: what we appear to be to others, or what we imagine ourselves to be. Who can make the selection and what are to be his criteria? At the Fogg Exhibition, two quite different portraits of Marian Anderson are hug together. The first is a formal portrait by Yousuf Karsh -- the photographer who took that famous picture of Churchill; the other, a portrait by Richard Avedon, shows Miss Anderson as the eternal siren -- the sad wailer with windblown black...