Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kuechenmeister's feeling of contentment contrasts with the tone of an article he wrote last winter for Uniroyal's company magazine criticizing forced retirement. "The thing I was objecting to," he says, "is that someone picked a mandatory point. Age isn't a very good criterion." After reading the story, one of his former bosses offered him what might have seemed like a dream deal: a four-month consultancy at the company's Venezuelan plant. But the months were May through August, and Kuechenmeister discovered he no longer wanted a job that would deprive...
...crucial criterion for admission to the Owl Club, one member, who wished to remain anonymous, said yesterday, is whether the candidate is "a good guy." Roland A. Hernandez '79, punching chairman of the D.U. Club, said yesterday that his club looks for men who will fit well into the club's existing social milieu...
...winner you must judge yourself by only one criterion--did you do what was necessary to bring home the win; did you get it done? If getting it done means taking on the other squad singlehanded or performing some superhuman feat, than that is what you must require yourself to do. Anything less isn't enough...
...Yankees, the 1942 tribute to Lou Gehrig featuring Gary Cooper as the ill-fated Yankee great. It was hokey and soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people who go to these films have to be sports fans...
...academic requirements for admissions are fairly loose. In fact, they're virtually non-existent: all you need to get in is proof that you're enrolled in a degree-granting institution of higher-education, or, if you're in high school, a letter from your guidance. The chief criterion for admission is ability to pay, and as there's no general financial aid program, most of the students here are people whose families are well enough off that they can avoid the tedium of a boring summer job, or go-getters who are attending classes and working on the side...