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...city ordinance controlling the granting of removal permits lists three specific criteria that must be considered in deciding each case benefits to the owner, hardship caused to low income and elderly tenants, and aggravation of the city's housing crisis
...filed the suit last June, claiming that the school committee used criteria other than seniority, such as race, in cutting its staff after severe budget reductions...
...page report, released two weeks ago, analyzes the federal government's role in financial aid and its responsibility to higher education in general. In it, Bok makes suggestions on how to reallocate aid if budget cuts and inflation necessitate using criteria other than need in distributing grants...
...pursuing the arcane joys of one of that burgeoning hobby's most popular specialties. It is called DXing, meaning long-distance communications. The obsessive goal of diehard DXers is to make at least one contact with each of the 318 "countries" recognized by hams around the world. Under criteria established by the American Radio Relay League, the largest ham organization, Navassa qualifies as one such country because it is more than 225 miles from its governing mainland. But no ham can talk to Navassa unless other amateurs go there to put it on the air. That...
...executives had to be convinced that it was in their interest to form a "national women's business group with a national focus." Assembling the group was no easy task, even though, as the search went on, Davis found 1,400 women who fitted the committee's criteria. Most successful candidates had risen to the top of their professions mainly on then-own, on talent and intelligence, without sisterhood coalitions or pushes from "old girl ties," or "networking," in the feminist jargon...