Word: criterion
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Like many students at this University, an important criterion in my choice to come here was that Harvard has Boston, while schools such as Yale, Brown and Dartmouth have New Haven, Providence and Hanover. I was looking forward to the chance to live in the same metropolitan area as hundreds of thousands of other students. Though I do not regret my choice, I do regret allowing myself to settle for the Crimson walls of Cambridge for my first two years...
...criterion, we kept having to remind ourselves, was influence, not greatness. In selecting the world leaders, it was easy to understand that we were selecting not those we liked but those (such as Hitler) whose influence was huge. But for artists, everyone was tempted to push for personal favorites, the folks each of us thought were the best. For example, I'm in that slice of my generation that thinks the Stones were better than the Beatles, but I had to admit the Beatles had more influence. In the end a lot of people who may have been the best...
...White House years Carter would astonish aides by proofreading their memos to him. Brinkley should have set Carter to work on the book manuscript, asking him to comb out the unaccountable sloppiness ("criteria" for "criterion," "bravado" for "bravura" and many other errors, including the "Pakistani billionaire" on page 224 who turns into a "Palestinian billionaire" on page 225) and moments of inadvisable rhetorical wing-flapping, as when Carter "embraced leprosy eradication...
...many circles; the more politically correct--or at least clinical--term is erectile dysfunction, or ED, as it is commonly abbreviated. Inspired by a 1992 National Institutes of Health Conference and landmark 1994 study on the problem, the diagnosis has been defined more broadly, from the rather strict criterion of inability to get an erection, period, to the somewhat more elastic and subjective criterion of inability to get an erection adequate for "satisfactory sexual performance." This has led to a tripling of the number of men estimated to be impotent in this country--some 30 million according...
...main criterion is that we have established a close personal relationship with the NGO and have been in contact with someone who would be managing the internship," Gray says...