Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down by a rocket last Wednesday, previously moderate fighting between the powerful Tutsi minority and the president's Hutu loyalists escalated to tragic proportions. As in Bosnia and Croatia, race has become the only criterion for murder. Hundred of thousands of people--Hutus and Tutsis--are fleeing Kigali, but they have nowhere to go. Espcaping the fighting gives them a chance at life, but starvation is already claiming thousands in the barren lands around the city...
McConnell and Laycock assert that Lemon's "primary-effect" criterion (the one used to outlaw the Kiryas Joel school) is too fuzzy and has been misused to deny religious Americans rights that are automatically granted to others. The Supreme Court has already overruled lower courts that used the primary- effect criterion to outlaw voluntary religious clubs in public schools, rental of public schools to churches on the same basis as other community groups, and help for blind and deaf students attending religious schools...
Since then, I've added one more criterion to my list of desirable attributes in the men I date: it helps if they have seen "The Philadelphia Story," preferably more than once, and loved it. It's not that easy to find these days, but when I do, I know things could get serious...
...proceed to develop an externship program, it will have to meet the usual criterion," Clark said in an interview. "It only seems practical to open something with the local SUITan alarm system in the residence. The suit alsochrages that the dean failed to warm the plaintiffof prior break-ins to Faculty Row residences...
Many established groups seeking funding for large events are often disappointed that they do not receive as much funding as they would like and suggest that the age criterion be eliminated. However, by doing so, we would shortchange the younger groups who are more vulnerable without funding. It is important to keep in mind that the older and larger groups were also at one time young and small. We simply owe it to the young groups to give them a fair chance to survive and succeed...