Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more immediate, temporal sense than any other organ, even the brain. The human body can survive for years in a coma, with no conscious brain function -but only for minutes without a beating heart. So the presence of a heartbeat, along with breathing, has long been the basic criterion for distinguishing life from death. It still is, in the vast majority of cases, despite some special situations in which the brain's electrical activity is a more reliable index. (So far, no surgeon has seriously considered transplanting a brain, because, beyond the forbidding technical difficulties, this would be akin...
...real surprises cropped up when Coleman studied the factors associated with low achievement. Of the four he uncovered, the least influential was schools facilities, so long used as the criterion of quality education. According to the Report, school facilities are substantially the same in all schools, minority and majority, across the country. Per pupil expenditure, curricula, all the physical trappings of education, simply do not explain why Negro children leave city schools as near-illiterates...
...would be unfair, however, to hold elections at a specific meeting or to require any other criterion for voting such as "a registration of interest" at a House office. Every student under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should receive the maximum opportunity to vote. Balloting should take place over several days and in places of easy accessibility...
...Greek junta has forced the nation's 200,000 civil servants to fill out a questionnaire that is being used as a criterion for continued employment. The questionnaire, marked "Top Secret," is issued to each civil servant and must be completed on the spot. The regime has made a concerted effort to prevent its publication, and the copy which the Crimson has seen may be one of the first to be smuggled out of the country...
...designer of women's clothes. Quasar's furniture also uses just two components: pillows and a hard plastic frame shaped like a squashed three-dimensional U that, standing up, serves as a chair, on its side can be used as a see-through table. "Transparency is the criterion of our age," proclaims Quasar, but like other see-through inflatables, his furniture can be filled with water colored to fit the mood. Or, on a cold night, his pillows can be easily turned into cozy hot-water cushions...