Word: criterion
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SCHUMACHER THEREFORE makes no attempt to veil the values on which he bases his economics. For him, permanence, along with the cardinal virtues of health and beauty, is the qualitative criterion on which economic activity should be judged. If an activity cannot be sustained over a long time without poisoning the environment or degrading the social structure, then it is not worth continuing, regardless of its effect on GNP. What we really need from scientists and technologists is not "fantastic satisfactions" like space flight but methods and equipment... "cheap enough to be accessible to everyone; suitable for small-scale application...
Hooker claims that the committee's decision is discriminatory in several ways. Scholarship has never been a criterion for physical education professors, she said, and she was never informed of any elevated requirements...
...medical center's spokesman, Henry Wilson, said an established criterion for death is two EEG readings of zero brain activity taken 24 hours apart...
...decision will probably rest on whether the Department of Athletics uses quality or quantity as a criterion, Hunt said...
Dean Rosovsky's move last week to sharpen the focus on teaching abilities in tenure decisions is laudable, if long overdue. His request that department chairmen include separate evaluations of teaching skills with ad hoc tenure recommendations suggests that perhaps teaching will become an important criterion for Harvard faculty. If teaching ability received as careful a scrutiny as research and publications in tenure decisions, the Harvard education--at least from the students' point of view--would improve immensely...