Word: criterion
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Instead of a system of reverse discrimination, the goal should be to eliminate initial discrimination against blacks and other minorities, which is a departure from the merit criterion. Quotas, like such discrimination, depart from this criterion, and thus are unfair to everyone--unfair to consumers and employers who lose the benefit of superior service, unfair to fellow workers who must rely on less skilled help in their jobs, unfair to most minority group members who suffer the suspicion that they did not earn their positions, and unfair to those with the best qualifications who may lose opportunities that should have...
Since individuals have the right to associate freely, however, the government is not justified in enforcing the merit criterion any more than it is justified in enforcing quotas. In a free society people should have the right to voluntarily establish private institutions run on any basis they may choose, as well as the right to hire whom they want, the right to form schools of whatever composition they desire, and the right to offer their productive services as widely or selectively as they wish. An opinion has already been expressed here concerning the principle on which they should base these...
...given a letter of severe reprimand. In any case, Kissinger was reminded by his critics-with some relish-of his double standard on leaks. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter whose phone had been tapped in the 1969 leak investigation, charged that to Kissinger, "the criterion of classification has become intensely personal"-anything embarrassing to him is "top secret" but anything helpful to him "can be leaked with impunity." As Kissinger had discovered, the news leak is like a slippery hose, capable of spraying both those who use it and those who try to shut...
...union hope for? It is obviously in a considerably more advanced stage of organization than its "University-wide" counterpart, the Harvard Employees' Organizing Committee (HEOC), and to deprive already-organized workers of their right to collective bargaining seems patently unfair. And yet "extent of organization" ceased to be a criterion for unionization in 1947, with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Amendment. Previously, the Massachusetts state labor board would award union status to different stores in a department store chain and to different floors in factories, simply on the basis of the extent to which they were already organized...
...study, conducted by the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation (OIRE) at Harvard, indicates that 48 per cent of the departments surveyed placed prime importance upon scholastic ability, while 39 per cent of the departments placed teaching ability first. The remaining 13 per cent did not single out one criterion as being more important than another...