Word: criterion
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Therefore, active and extensive recruitment programs are not necessarily promoted by this classification. Instead, as L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said earlier this week, the admissions office "feels the important criterion is whether natural applications are underrepresented. For example, in deciding if we spend more time in the Midwest or New England, in relative terms we spend more time in the Midwest, because we tend not to get so many applications from there...
...Chinese seem ambivalent about the U.S. election. For them, the key criterion by which to judge a U.S. President is: Where does he stand in the Sino-Soviet dispute? While Carter's advocacy of a tougher policy toward Moscow clearly pleases the Chinese, they know almost nothing else about him. Ford apparently has failed to impress them, and Peking accuses him of having a "Munich mentality." Translation: Ford has been too concerned about improving U.S. relations with Moscow...
Derrick A. Bell, Jr., professor of Law, said yesterday that "the type of admissions program with which the California decision deals has become obsolete. Our minority program here at Harvard really encompasses the majority. It is only a part of the rather broad and subjective criterion that admissions people use. These kinds of programs are less subject to legal attacks of this sort...
...real problem, Friedenthal said, is that smaller professional schools, without the drawing power of institutions like Harvard and Stanford, would "get locked into a system where test scores are the only criterion...
...Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as a non-aligned country, has been striving to have respect for independence become the basic criterion of international behavior. This is the lasting principle of our foreign policy...