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Still, the pundits seemed to agree on several criteria that may have appeared mysterious to the ordinary viewer. Hart, for example, was "expected" to win Massachusetts, according to all three networks, the implication being that his big victory therefore counted for less. Apparently he was also "expected" to win Rhode Island, a unionized and traditionally Democratic state that would seem to have been Mondale territory. Thus, to the pundits, Hart's major victory was in Florida, although his margin there was the narrowest in his three primary triumphs. In analyzing Mondale, the standards may have been a little more...
...accept and protect religious plurality. In a rather shocking passage the majority opinion states "we have repeatedly emphasized our unwillingness to be confined to any single test or criterion in this sensitive area." The statement seems to symbolize the court's apparent willingness to back down on previously stringent criteria in the face of conservative pressure and the friendliness of the season...
Proctors are chosen on many criteria, including their ability to help freshmen make their own informed decisions. All proctors are college graduates, some from "Harvard, some not. The proctors who have degrees from other schools are just as capable of giving general advice about course selection as anyone else. The "Harvard academic system" is not so different from others so as to require a Harvard diploma to help students begin to explore it. Advisers need not be expert in every concentration and its requirements: for concentration advising, students are referred to individual departments to consult experts in their subject...
...letter of reference for a specific application you should supply the letter writer with information about the criteria used in the selection process. This will give them the opportunity to speak to the qualities in which the selection committee is most interested...
...total forces on the Continent be kept below the level required for conventional defense. NATO did not wish to tempt Soviet conventional aggression by doing anything to suggest that a Western response would be limited to nonnuclear means. Hence the American conventional deployment in Europe reflected political, not military, criteria: it was intended to give us no choice about nuclear retaliation and to leave the Soviets no doubt that this would