Word: criterion
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These observations suggest a criterion that the center might wish to employ: It should ask those who wish to work within it not only how their work would contribute to development in Africa but also what problems, central to their disciplines, they can address by basing their research in Africa. Each participant should be motivated by a vision of her academic field and of the place of African research within...
...selecting the new chief this fall, University officials said Riley's ability to deal with students, particularly minorities, was an important criterion in his appointment...
...manage. Thus college choices tend to be irreversible, and the competition between schools is not expected to behave as a free market after the senior year of high school. Finally, much of Harvard's funding comes from indirect costs on research grants by the federal government; the primary criterion for such funding is the effectiveness of research, not the responsiveness of a school to the opinions of its undergraduates...
...have been painfully clear to even the most common of commoners that Diana wasn't selected for the princess job on the basis of intelligence or loyalty or wit. The qualifications were simple: she had to be a presentable Protestant from the upper class and a virgin. The last criterion has to do less with morality than with the purity of the product. She was, to put it crudely, enlisted as a breeder, charged with the job of transmitting the Windsor genes from Charles to his eventual replacements--"an heir and a spare," as some British delicately describe her sons...
...grandmother's criterion, it's simple--was it good for the Jews?" he joked, saying that the philosopher Maimonides would have topped her list...