Word: criterion
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...Crimson (2-7, 1-4 EIWA) was unable to build on last week’s successes, suffering road losses to No. 19 Penn, 25-11, and Princeton—a defeat based on the eighth criterion of near falls after the teams battled to a 19-19 draw. The two losses drop the squad’s road record...
Steelcase, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., makes a 500-lb.-capacity office chair, Criterion Plus, that is 5 in. wider than the 18-in. standard and sells for $1,500. Countless hours of watching people at work and noticing how much larger they had become, says product manager Ken Tameling, convinced Steelcase engineers that the seat of their ergonomic Leap chair should be set at 20 in. They engineered its backrest to produce greater resistance when heavy people lean back, as well as attached arms that move laterally. All this, says Tameling, has helped make sales...
...some of these, there is an issue of grandfathering," admits Dr. Michael First, editor of DSM IV. "The onus is on the person who wants to change it to prove that we should do so." First also acknowledges that the A.P.A. does not subject every criterion to rigorous scientific testing, "for practical reasons of continuity." Which may be another way of saying some old-timers still bill sessions for "transvestic fetishists," and they don't want to lose the DSM stamp of approval needed for insurance reimbursement...
This law directly conflicts with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) anti-discrimination policy, which prevents FAS from restricting research based on nationality. Under the regulations, it doesn’t matter if the aliens are political refugees or long-time expatriates from their home countries. The defining criterion to be a “restricted person” is one’s citizenship, which means nothing in terms of academic integrity...
...criterion for local autonomy shall be whether the college organization makes all policy decisions without obligation to any parent organization,” the handbook continues...