Word: criterion
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...resistance from the chief of the SDI program, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson. In testimony before Congress two months ago, Abrahamson argued that SDI should be ''affordable,'' a more elastic definition. Nitze, a shrewd bureaucratic infighter, persuaded the President to sign a national security decision directive making his criterion official policy. Asked at the TIME conference whether he was trying to skirt Nitze's standard, Abrahamson demurred. He conceded that he might have ''erred'' by using the word ''affordable,'' but he seemed to fudge by insisting that the question was not merely economic. ''You also have to consider...
...that revived Dassin's rep - not for the Mercouri films but for his early-prime crime pictures. (Film noir is a genre that never goes out of favor.) The Criterion Collection lavished its legendary care on editions of Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Night and the City and Rififi. And when that film was briefly released in theaters in 2000, it won a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Yet a bunch of Dassin's major Euro-pix, including He Who Must Die, The Law and Phaedra, and his late-60s urban drama Up Tight...
...Lane specifically focuses on “social phobia,” which he personally believes is in reality nothing more than shyness. Criterion D for Social Phobia in the DSM is “the social or performance situation is avoided, although it is sometimes endured with dread.” If you experience dread in performance situations and “a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur” (Criterion A), then you may have Social Phobia, just like an estimated three to 13 percent of the general population...
...devout and practicing Muslim goes beyond mere “peer pressure” to deeply influence the range of lifestyles women can conceive for themselves; moreover, once the practice wearing a headscarf becomes “normalized” by society, refusal to do so becomes a criterion for exclusion and harassment—something which women should never face, let alone in public institutions of higher learning. Moreover, the unique political circumstances of Turkey complicate the extent to which such strong secular practices are needed. Despite its modern history, contemporary Turkey faces a growing Islamic threat?...
...much of the world, after all: women going to work, young people migrating far from home and, perhaps most important, a newly pervasive insistence on love as an essential ingredient of marriage. Fisher cites a study that asked 10,000 people of 36 cultures about their No. 1 criterion for marriage. "Everywhere, the answer was love," she says...