Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dowds said the civic association looks for candidates who are generally supportive of the organizations progressive agenda and platform. Another criterion, he said, is a candidate's ability to work with other candidates as a team...
...chatty U.S. criterion, Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter) is no great shakes. Even by French standards, Claude Sautet's drama tends to dither a bit. Yet the film displays a wonderful attention to the spaces between what people say and what they mean. Because the business of its main characters is making music, we spend many rewarding moments watching people listen. And then, because this is a kind of love story, we watch a woman watching a man. Here, the actors are the audience; they do what...
...Faculty, which must approve any changes in College rules, passed the compromise definition favoring a negative criterion for date rape; the standard places the burden on the victim to "express unwillingness...
...those opposing the SAT go even further, contending that the test is a worthless criterion...
...post-cold war liberalism, self-interest is a tainted, corrupting motive for intervention. It is not just a dispensable criterion for intervention; it is disqualifying. The apparent liberal flip-flops on intervention now begin to make sense. In the Persian Gulf, where American national interests are seriously engaged, they opposed armed intervention. In Somalia, where American national interests are not at all engaged, they supported armed intervention. And in Bosnia, where American national interests stand to be seriously jeopardized by intervention, they are positively enthusiastic for intervention...