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...NIMH interviewers questioned nearly 10,000 people living in and around Baltimore, St. Louis and New Haven. The responses were fed into computers and checked against criteria for 13 or more mental disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Other sections of the survey, covering 2,500 institutionalized patients and some 6,000 people in Los Angeles and Durham, N.C., are expected to be released next year...
...case, New York City Tax Commission vs. Unification Church, the United States Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the Unification Church was a bona fide religion, based on such criteria as "a belief in ultimate concerns" and devotion to worship and evangelism...
Committee members added, however, that they were unsurprised by the report's contents since South Africa policy had ethical criteria for defense contracting were subjects of constant debate last year
...audience in any reasonable order, or take prudent steps to prevent members of the audience from being abusive, giving speeches, or otherwise interfering improperly with the proceedings. But a moderator may not use such authority in a public meeting as a device for limiting participation according to criteria that are arbitrary and suspect, such as race, religion, or political persuasion...
While the Harvard admissions process tends to emphasize the objective criteria, some other schools attempt to weigh subjective considerations more heavily. Columbia Law School, for example, attaches equal value to what Dean of Admissions James Milligan calls "the enrichment factor...