Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Political demonstrations which encourage reasoned discussion of moral issues in our community are a good thing. This shantytown seems appropriate by this criterion. I see nothing wrong with studen's or faculty meeting there to discuss the issues...
Those who want to use Harvard's stock portfolio to make a moral statement are very selective in their morality. Their criterion for divestiture is not that a company play a role in supporting dictatorship, but only that it operate in South Africa...
...change in the recent freshman housing choice surveys. The March 12th article points out that many frosh based their choice on the "difficulty of getting into a house." It is apparent that the new system encourages freshmen to put even more of a premium on this old criterion...
...pragmatist. At the Philharmonic, he gradually broadened his repertoire to include a variety of musical styles; in opera the would-be dynamiter turned out to be an effective Wagnerian. At his brainchild, IRCAM, Boulez's fellow composers have great stylistic latitude. "I cannot make my personal taste the main criterion," he says. "I am more tolerant than my reputation...
...While they say academics are fairly equal, people use sports as a criterion to compare Harvard and Yale," says Yale senior Andrew E. Chau...