Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simply, these reformers are convinced that success on a series of high-pressure examinations should not be the main criterion for participation in "honorary" activities, like the Law Review. Board of Student Advisers, and Legal Aid Society. Nor do they feel that top law firms and government agencies should recruit only among exam whiz kids...
...Broadway, the Great Producer records not how a show played but whether it won or lost. By that criterion, the box-office score for the season now ending is seven hits, five others that stayed on long enough to break into the black, and 25-odd errors. That reckoning, disastrous as it sounds, is about standard for the '60s-and so was the season...
...Tonis is one of the few with a background in police work (one man, a retired army colonel, was warden of a prison for German war criminals after the last war). Recruits come largely from within the Harvard community. They include librarians, janitors, and maintenance men, and the primary criterion for their selection is their "ability to get along with people." Tonis interviews as many as 50 applicants for one vacancy. The job is considered a good one and pays relatively well; no one has quit in the last five years...
...writer imposes difficulties just as critical as those of one-hundredth of a second upon a photographer. Tolstroy once noted that his primary problem was to select and arrange separate moments taken from continuous time. Discontinuity--inherent in all descriptive or reproductive art--is not in itself a criterion for judging "truthfulness...
...then checked his results by using the verbal aptitude score alone as his intelligence criterion. Some people consider it a better measure than prl, Dr. Nicholai said, because it does not take motivation into account...