Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college enrollment expanded, schools had to create large numbers of new academic positions. While this increase in itself does not imply specialization, the expansion of the education industry created a need for easily measurable criteria for qualifying prospective teachers, and the criterion devised was the publication of scholarly articles. Today libraries are filled with scholarly books and journals that only professional scholars read. The production of this kind of academic writing is unrelated to teaching. In fact, a specialized scholar is less able to teach undergraduates--unless the students aspire to academic careers...
...medical statisticians insist that it is not yet an epidemic because not enough people have sickened and died to meet that criterion. This is no comfort to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been laid low with influenza. No words and no wonder drugs help to lower the initial fever, ease the aching head and bones, stop the hacking cough and make rubbery legs feel strong again. Dr. Donald O. Lyman, director of New York's Bureau of Disease Control, advises: "I'd stay in bed, let people fawn over me, drink my fruit juice...
Several months ago, President Carter indicated that human rights would finally become an important criterion in American foreign policy, yet the United States has made no move to dissociate itself from the inhuman Marcos regime in the Philippines. If the Carter administration is serious about human rights in other nations, it should reconsider its position with regard to the Philippines...
...most liberal and forward-looking in the country, that upheld Bakke in a decisive 6-to-l opinion. Basing its decision on a rather literal reading of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law, the California court stated that the use of race as a criterion in any official program calls for judicial "strict scrutiny." Unless a "compelling state interest" can be demonstrated and there are no viable, nonracial alternative methods available, the use of race is forbidden. Here, the court ruled that the university had not exhausted alternative methods. Among its suggestions: more aggressive recruitment...
...years, or even a lifetime, is a cause for sadness and questioning. We must question in the hope of eventually making this world more accomodating for the homosexual who wishes to be homosexual in it. I came to Harvard expecting such an accomodating environment; in fact, that was a criterion for coming here. I expected such an environment because I had assumed that intelligent people, which I have subsequently found Harvard students to be, would be liberal and enlightened in their moral and political attitudes. Not so. They are bound by precedent and existing sentiment; they do not necessarily make...