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...propose to help residents preserve community. No new programs, no new bureaucracies, but a set of systematic adjustments to existing eligibility criteria. For example...
...Secretary will probably set a minimum standard that functions as a floor rather than as a ceiling," says Thompson. "In that scenario the Marines would still have the leeway to apply a higher standard." After all, they just wouldn't be Marines if they were judged by the same criteria as civilians...
...long-running Holocaust reparations dispute isn't over yet. Switzerland's three biggest banks decided Friday to offer a maximum of $600 million to settle class actions from concentration camp inmates and their descendants. "By all legitimate criteria," said a joint statement from Credit Suisse, Swiss Bank Corp and Union Bank of Switzerland, "this is a fair offer...
...extra Herceptin to a limited number of women, chosen at random by a computer, and Nocera's number hasn't come up yet. "My fear," she says, "is that it's all about money and that these companies don't need us if we don't meet their criteria...
...White House years Carter would astonish aides by proofreading their memos to him. Brinkley should have set Carter to work on the book manuscript, asking him to comb out the unaccountable sloppiness ("criteria" for "criterion," "bravado" for "bravura" and many other errors, including the "Pakistani billionaire" on page 224 who turns into a "Palestinian billionaire" on page 225) and moments of inadvisable rhetorical wing-flapping, as when Carter "embraced leprosy eradication...