Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assistant Managing Editor Edward L. Jamieson. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson sketched Faisal the man, and Senior Writer Lance Morrow analyzed Man of the Year also-rans, including Nixon, Ford and Kissinger. Why were they also-rans? Because their actions over the past twelve months did not meet the criterion that determines TIME'S choice: the person who has most significantly affected - for good or ill - the course of events...
...have a "legitimate gripe," it is hard to understand what that phrase means to Bok. Bell is the only black professor among 59 at the Law School. Of 16 Law School teaching fellows, there is only one black and one with a Spanish surname, which is also a criterion for official minority status. Bell's gripe could not be more legitimate--whether the "visible attempt" to recruit minority faculty is a phony PR slogan or an honest effort that has completely failed...
What makes terrorism respectable? The main criterion is success. Algeria's Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika is currently president of the U.N. General Assembly partly because terrorism got its way in Algeria. If the French had been able to crush the F.L.N., he would probably be either dead or in prison. None of this should be cited in defense, let alone in praise of terror-only in deference to a terrible reality...
...door. We don't discover, until too late, that the definitions of the crisis have been posed in terms of interest to the elite groups. The possibility exists further, that the developed world may simply decide to forget countries that cannot be helped, according to the new Social Darwinist criterion...
...investigators failed to ask most of the stricken students what it was exactly they ate. "They probably wouldn't remember that far back," Krause said, but nutritionists at the School of Public Health said yesterday that this criterion was one of the first concerns sanitary inspectors must address if there is a possibility of food poisoning...