Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TERRORISM. This is not the main line of the Palestinian revolution. We carry out such actions according to a delicate political judgment. The major criterion is that such action hits directly at the Zionist Israeli economy and not at a third party. While we are not enthusiastic about such actions, we don't condemn them. They are the result of 28 years of oppression and scattering and misfortunes of the Palestinian people...
Instead, the 11 groups propose that the nine-member HDC executive board retain its power, and that HDC members be advised that drama activities outside the Loeb be a major criterion in electing board members. But this, again, does not go far enough. Only if the HDC board has a proportional number of members from drama groups outside the HDC will all drama groups be assured that decisions on mainstage productions in the future will be fair...
...university is a complex community. Its young people and its faculty are involved, in common, in the pursuit of learning. Yet in other aspects, in religions, cultures, values or life-styles there are diversities. A principle of universalism holds in the realm of scholarship. It says that the criterion for the selection of a faculty, and even of students, should be specific to that aim, regardless of other attributes. But the principle of pluralism is a respect for the differences in religion, culture and the like...
...consider appointments, the Gov faculty often divides along methodological, institutional and political lines. "People do have those opinions and tend to prefer to hire people with the same opinions as themselves, but we would very quickly go down the drain if we used similarity of opinion as the main criterion," Mansfield said...
...times for most people would thus he within the lifetime of people living today-that is, sometime during the 20th century. But when precisely? Here the answer becomes more subjective, a parlor game in which anyone is entitled to his own answer, so long as he remembers that the criterion is not just when his own fortunes or his own prospects were most favorable. In their own lives people are apt to choose, in retrospect, their young adult years. Perhaps this is why some people even fondly remember the Great Depression. They argue that material luxury is not the only...