Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what I did at that point as an appropriate and positive thing, something I should be rewarded for," Johnson said yesterday. "If that is used as a negative criterion in evaluating my candidacy [for the assistant deanship], then what that says is that a positive criteria would have been that someone in a similar situation would not have said that...
...getting genes into the next generation was, for better or worse, the criterion by which the human mind was designed. Mental traits conducive to genetic proliferation are the traits that survived. They are what constitute our minds today; they are us, we are designed to steer genes through a technologically primitive social structure. The good news is that doing this job entailed some quite pleasant feelings. Because social cooperation improves the chances of survival, natural selection imbued our minds with an infrastructure for friendship, including affection, gratitude and trust. (In technical terms, this is the machinery for "reciprocal altruism...
BILL DUVALL WANTS TO FIND PORN ON the Internet. He wants to so badly that he pays Stanford University graduate students to track it down for him. Those bright-eyed bounty hunters of smut are efficient, finding between five and 10 places a day that meet Duvall's single criterion: sexual explicitness. On a typical day last week, his free-lancers brought him the Internet addresses of computers that proffered bootleg images from Playboy, erotic bedtime stories and stag party-style X-rated video snippets. All of them went into a kind of address book that has well in excess...
...addition, the Core does not include certain courses because they supposedly do not meet the 'approach to knowledge' criterion. This year, History 10, a year-long survey of Western civilization, was not allowed into the Core because it did not precisely fit the description of Historical Study A or B. A persnickety distinction such as this is a ridiculous reason to discourage students from studying western civilization as a fundamental part of their education...
...main reason things worked out so nicely was Streep's discovery that he was her kind of director and Eastwood's that she was his kind of actress. Her criterion, she said, was someone who "doesn't say anything to me ... leaves me alone." Well, not entirely alone; what she needs is "somebody who inspires your confidence, who sets up a safe world for you [where you can] make your mistakes and go as wild and as far out as you want...