Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private enterprise, diplomacy, the Federal Government and as Governor of New York, President Ford put him at the top of his list. "The President was not looking for the survival of the Republican Party but for the survival of the Republic," explained his chief aide Robert Hartmann. "The overwhelming criterion was whether the Vice President could step into the top spot...
...that the House of Representatives is an "outside agency." Its members are all politicians, all eminently susceptible to the same failings as Nixon. The barely bipartisan nature of Saturday's vote on the first impeachment resolution is hardly reassuring to anyone trying to believe that objective truth is any criterion in the House's investigation. But take it or leave it, that's all there is. Whatever shortcomings the impeachment process may have, the country is stuck with it, at least this time...
...issue first appears on the newsstands), we had to exclude, often by a narrow margin, some remarkable figures. Treasury Secretary William Simon missed by eight months, and Adwoman Mary Wells Lawrence by 44 days. As it turned out, the difficult part was not finding 200 people who met our criterion of leadership but confining the list to that number...
What indeed was our criterion? The touchstone was civic or social impact...
...suffered the ultimate in women's exploitation; and whose father had been imprisoned for years. Zayas, who at 14 mothered a son, is a high school dropout who scored below the national average on her Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Thus, some would readily say that Zayas had the perfect criterion--economically, socially and academically--to ensure her rejection from Harvard University didate in the Radcliffe class...