Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those columnists who has often criticized Vance and Owen, I suppose I fit Rosenthal's criterion. (I'll flatter myself by pretending he has actually read my columns...
...Powell, this is not a matter of justice, but utility. Sexual orientation is obviously not a just criterion for exclusion from the military since homosexuality does not prevent a soldier from carrying out his or her duties. With this in mind, however, the ban on gays in the military is often branded arbitrary discrimination...
Powell is not the first Commencement speaker whose views members of the Harvard community find objectionable. What about when Fidel Castro spoke at Commencement in the early '60s? While the ban is offensive to many, "offensiveness" is an unacceptable criterion for a speaker's acceptance or rejection...
White repeatedly refers to affirmative action as "special treatment" for minority students. He denounces all forms of "special treatment" in college admissions, "whether the criterion is race, athletic ability, or legacy status." Yet White's position implies wrongly that these factors are extraneous to the credentials necessary for college admission...
When then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 chose 26-year Boston police veteran Paul E. Johnson to be Harvard's police chief in 1983, he made the choice largely on one criterion: professionalism...