Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added, however, that he doubted the Senate would reject an appointee on the basis of his philosophy alone. "Many of the great giants wouldn't have been approved if that had been the criterion," he said
...have admissions policies and practices which result in the discriminatory treatment of women. We, too, feel that to construe employment opportunity within some Ph.D. programs as being within the meaning of the Executive Orders does raise certain policy questions. Not the least of these is whether the significant criterion for admissions is the proportion or percentage of the applicant pool...
...users, of course, such as those who are arrested and those who sign up for treatment programs. But such figures account for only a fraction of the addict population. To arrive at an overall estimate, officials in many cities project from the number of overdose deaths, one commonly used criterion being 200 addicts for each fatality. A new study in Washington, D.C., indicates that because some overdose deaths have gone undetected, the number of active users may be even higher than previously estimated...
Halperin agrees, noting that "there is nobody who fits the following criterion: a full-time employee of the U.S. Government who worked on Viet Nam and who resigned and publicly stated that he was doing so because he disagreed with our policy there. There isn't even anyone who fits most...
...first of these six stages, which Kohlberg established after interviewing a cross section of youngsters about imaginary moral problems, "right" behavior is based on fear of punishment. In the second stage, the criterion is selfish need -as in the case of a child who believed a man should steal a lifesaving drug for his wife because if she dies "there'll be no one to cook his food...