Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps next time around, Harvard will have advanced to the point where they will deny that sex is a criterion in choosing a president. Right now, the Corporation doesn't think it's worth the effort. The mention of a woman president last week brought an abashed smile to the face of one Corporation member and that silent, plaintive look best interpreted as "Now, come on, get serious...
...same time, the consciousness of the individual political scientist becomes a less important criterion of his usefulness. Huntington's paper is a "how to" paper; it is of immediate value, but insufficient for dealing with broad and enduring problems of political and social control. Huntington's efforts depend on research done by scholars who may in many respects oppose Huntington: nevertheless, he and his friends can employ that research to their own ends...
...advent of nuclear warfare has added a new chapter to the age-old paradox of the morality of war. Conventionality, not humanity, is the new criterion to rationalize the act of killing...
...able to get most of their financing through retained profits, bond issues or bank loans, which were fairly cheap and easy to obtain. Executives were reluctant to float stock because it would dilute their earnings per share. "And in those days," says Stein, "earnings per share were a sacrosanct criterion of executive skill...
...appears that this -phe-. nomena phenomenon occurs most often nowadays within the strata stratum of people concerned with newspapers, magazines, television and radio-in a word, media. Trouble is, the media 4s are not singular; 4t-4s-they are plural, as 4s-are candelabra. According to this criteria criterion, -the first thing on the agendum agenda should be to call a halt to all of -this-these errata...