Word: criteria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gallup takes a public opinion poll. Government officials each month telephone or visit 65,000 randomly selected households to determine whether any teen-ager or adult living there is jobless and has looked for work at least once in the previous four weeks. If a person fits both criteria, he or she is officially unemployed...
...University of West Virginia Medical Center in the coal-mining center of Morgantown, Dr. W. Keith Morgan and his colleagues examined 200 miners who had claimed black lung benefits. Only eight qualified by existing compensation criteria; they had somewhat impaired breathing ability. Even so, none showed any indication of progressive massive fibrosis, a stiffening of lung tissue that doctors regard as the true sign of permanent disability...
...Baltimore Orioles came to play Seattle, the matter was put before the supreme judges of player pulchritude: the Mariners' wives. The surprising result: a home-town favorite, Pitcher Rick Honeycutt, placed second to Orioles Pitcher Jim Palmer in a ranking of baseball's top ten hunks. The criteria for the contest were a little unclear, observed Debbie Honeycutt, wife of the runner-up. "We weren't sure whether they wanted it from the neck up, the neck down or both." Palmer modestly admits his ads for Jockey briefs may have given him a below-the-neck edge...
...look at the content of the curriculum, they should have looked at the whole thing and not just the core," Kain says, adding, "But we gave them more information about the coverage of different topics within the core curriculum itself and now they agree that we meet the criteria." Kain argues that the APA believed the department did not meet the teaching staff criteria because it counted a faculty member as a planner only if he held a planning degree while CRP considers some of its members as planners because they have substantial experience in the field. Last fall...
...department promoted Frederick Cooper, assistant professor of History, to the position of associate professor. Cooper and the four denied tenure--not to mention some confused students--criticized the department for not publicizing clear criteria for promotion...