Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traditional scholarship is undeniably important, but there are certain absurdities involved in weighting publications (and often only publications that meet "scientific" journal standards) to the exclusion of any other factors. Teaching skill, of course, is also ruled out by this narrow criterion for appointment. It is unrealistic to expect that any one person could combine both unequalled research and a strong commitment to working with people in clinical situations...
...approval from the family and the Roosevelt Memorial Commission. Not so the Fine Arts Commission, which must pass on all public construction in Washington. "Such a memorial requires the highest standards of artistic achievement and significance," said Commission Chair man William Walton. "The proposed design does not fulfill either criterion...
...interviewed by representatives from all the clubs, who visit him in his room. If he's good, the sophomore will get eight or nine bids to join different clubs. If he's not so good (according to the clubs' scale of "coolness," as the system's opponents call the criterion), then he will get just one or two bids, or maybe none...
Shanker predicts a change in public strike laws around the nation. Rather than a blanket prohibition of strikes in the public section, the criterion should be the degree of emergency created by the strike. A strike by public bus drivers is not as serious, Shanker suggested, as a strike by employees of Con Edison...
According to his historical essay, "A Negro Separatist Movement," Archie Epps would disagree with Gordon's criterion that is independent of larger society. Epps points out that even a radical American Negro group like the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) had to work through society. For Epps argues that there is an "intricate network of connections which bind Negro culture and history to the larger society and visa versa." The AME had to draw upon Christian egalitarian ideas of the larger society to justify their positions. In parallel fashion, developing countries would face many problems breaking connections with industrialized powers...