Word: criterion
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Friedman also argued that the law school's use of racial criterion was "indistinguishable from a straight quota system...
...have made a concerted study of movies with great shelf life. For several weeks, my criterion for renting a movie has been that it must have been made at least 50 years ago. I sometimes think that the awarding of Oscars should be delayed for 50 years, just to make sure a movie's got legs...
...shows up on AMC and TCM fairly often (last Tuesday, in fact). I'm guessing the Turner library (a part of AOL Time Warner, by the way, which owns all the old RKO releases) is preparing a DVD for U.S. release. (There was also an excellent Criterion Collection laser disk. Do you still have your laser disk player...
Gutmann, the only woman on the short list, is currently the director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton. She easily meets the criterion of interest and experience in undergraduate education. She has written several books on education reform, advocated tenure reform and embraced faculty diversity during her short stint as Princeton's Dean of the Faculty. Gutmann's efforts to engage undergraduates and to promote the progress of women in the sciences indicate her concern for the undergraduate experience. Furthermore, Gutmann is a renowned scholar in her field. Though she is not as well-known in the political...
...attend private schools. "A surprisingly high percentage of immigrant parents also choose private schools," notes Lärjedalen official ?sten Carlson. "If you thought they are forced to choose [public school] because they don't know any better, it is simply not so." Interestingly, for immigrant parents the key criterion in selecting a private school is usually the quality of Swedish language instruction, a subject which they, like their Swedish counterparts, feel is compromised in a setting where the first language of most of the children is not the national...