Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main criterion for selecting a dumping spot is depth, with 1,000 fathoms (6,000 ft.) as a minimum. MSTS will drop its cargoes at points about 200 miles due east of Cape Cod, 105 miles south-southeast of Cape Henry, Va., 120 miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N.J., 240 miles southwest of Los Angeles and 150 miles west of San Francisco. Diving tests have shown that most of the hot material remains sealed off in the containers, but some leaks out, might yet show up in seafood. Oceanographers and marine biologists are studying the effects wrought on the radioactive...
Being on the cover of TIME can, in its way, be a recognition of position or fine achievement-but not necessarily. TIME'S gallery of cover subjects, as varied as life itself, is composed of men and women well remembered and long forgotten. The criterion for being on the cover was, and has always been, that they were news. After the Willy Brandt cover (May 25), the Berliner Zeitung in East Berlin said sarcastically that to be on TIME'S cover is "a high honor generally reserved only for faithful servants of American bank and stock-market barons...
...Harold Loeb-Criterion...
According to this year's regulations by the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs, "recognized organizations must maintain their autonomy. The criterion for local autonomy shall be whether the college organization makes all policy decisions without obligation to any parent organization...
...honest? Is she reliable? I am satisfied that Mrs. Luce does not meet either criterion...