Word: criterion
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...adult readers. I remember my own daughter, who at the age of eight had already created several criteria to help her select recreational reading materials. She would not read any book in which the main character was older than she was at the time - actually, not a bad beginning criterion for a young child to have...
...party's candidate has to get only 5 percent of the popular vote in a national election to receive matching Federal funds. Why is the debate criterion triple the 5 percent required to earn matching funds...
...running in early July, citing family considerations. And he kept coming back to the safest option--a seasoned Washington insider who would please the party faithful and whose fealty to the Bush family had been tested. "Loyalty," a senior Bush adviser intoned two weeks ago, "is the top criterion...
...will we know if the high-stakes, roll-of-the-dice Israeli-Palestinian summit called by President Clinton has succeeded? There is only one criterion for success: finality. Whatever document emerges, it must contain words like these: "The parties agree that the century-old conflict between the Jews and Arabs of Palestine is over...
...that last criterion that stymied the Sony. Its external speakers, even when turned up full blast, weren't loud enough to compete with the ambient noise of my station wagon, three Quittner girls and Otto, the brown dog. The Aiwa, on the other hand, could easily be heard by my kidlings in the back seat of the car. While the sound quality of the Sony's external-speaker system is way better than the Aiwa's for, say, sitting quietly and alone on your bed, it's too mellow for car trips and howling Quittners...