Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well General Motors has fulfilled its responsibilities to the customers, the dealers, our employees, our stockholders and our public, we believe, should not be measured against an arbitrary criterion supplied by the Project, but rather against our own achievements which we can document...
...have a chance of serving our customers. We have an obligation: we cannot take somebody into a dealership who cannot serve our customers, who would not have thefacilities, who would not be able to service our products. So the determination of a number of dealers by any racial criterion is not a numerical consideration...
...believe that the only criterion a university should follow in making investments is the profitability of a firm, although it's a key factor." he said...
...only one condition, the manic phase of manic-depressive psychosis. Some authorities are concerned that physicians may prescribe the drug too freely, for it may be dangerous. Double the usual prescribed dose can make a person miserably ill, and more might cause coma and death. Yet by this criterion lithium carbonate is no more dangerous than digitalis or insulin. Despite their poor profit prospects, three U.S. drug manufacturers are now marketing the compound as a public service. No one knows how many U.S. mental patients qualify for it: the figure most often quoted is around...
N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell obviously agreed, and talk of "investigation" soon faded. Even so, Campbell seemed certain to push for the elimination of the goals-scored criterion as a means of choosing between otherwise deadlocked teams. "Every sporting event implies an offense and a defense," he said, and in the empty-net games in New York and Chicago "no defense was required. That's not the way to play; I'm not satisfied with the system." Among the most logical alternatives under consideration: how the teams involved fared against each other during the course of the season...