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Perhaps next time around, Harvard will have advanced to the point where they will deny that sex is a criterion in choosing a president. Right now, the Corporation doesn't think it's worth the effort. The mention of a woman president last week brought an abashed smile to the face of one Corporation member and that silent, plaintive look best interpreted as "Now, come on, get serious...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...advent of nuclear warfare has added a new chapter to the age-old paradox of the morality of war. Conventionality, not humanity, is the new criterion to rationalize the act of killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...able to get most of their financing through retained profits, bond issues or bank loans, which were fairly cheap and easy to obtain. Executives were reluctant to float stock because it would dilute their earnings per share. "And in those days," says Stein, "earnings per share were a sacrosanct criterion of executive skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Change and Turmoil on Wall Street | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...appears that this -phe-. nomena phenomenon occurs most often nowadays within the strata stratum of people concerned with newspapers, magazines, television and radio-in a word, media. Trouble is, the media 4s are not singular; 4t-4s-they are plural, as 4s-are candelabra. According to this criteria criterion, -the first thing on the agendum agenda should be to call a halt to all of -this-these errata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Media Are Not Singular | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...have a chance of serving our customers. We have an obligation: we cannot take somebody into a dealership who cannot serve our customers, who would not have thefacilities, who would not be able to service our products. So the determination of a number of dealers by any racial criterion is not a numerical consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The General Motors | 4/24/1970 | See Source »

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