Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Field's "Seraglio" isn't particularly good, but it's fun to read. Even when the narrator gets morassed in Truth, the prose is crisp: "my reason had long since flown the strict cage of its criteria." And though the connection between the incidents is obscure, they are strikingly recounted...
...toward the rear-ready to fire should he spot a potential assassin aiming at the President from behind, as Lee Harvey Oswald did. Before Kennedy was killed, Secret Service files with names of persons potentially dangerous to the President contained no more than 400 names; now, thanks to broadened criteria for including names, those same Secret Service files list some 8,000 people, including every person who has defected from the U.S. to Russia and then come home, as Oswald...
...from the Dallas-Fort Worth area was on the Secret Service's "serious risk" list. The FBI had a bulky folder on Oswald, but it did not bother to tip off the Secret Service. Says the Commission: "The FBI had no official responsibility, under the Secret Service criteria existing at the time of the President's trip, to refer to the Secret Service the information it had about Oswald. The Commission has concluded, however, that the FBI took an unduly restrictive view of its role in preventive intelligence work prior to the assassination." Adds the Commission: "The Secret Service...
Under a new policy adopted this year, certain limited-enrollment courses considered applications irrespective of the order in which they were filed. Criteria for selections were left up to the individual course heads...
...immediately clear what criteria would be used to determine admission to a limited course, but applications have never gone above the limits in some courses, and these are expected simply to accept everyone who wants...