Word: criterion
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This leads one to a second criterion for evaluating gifts: the currency of the reprehensible business practice in question. Some will argue that time cleanses dirty money. In a sense, it does, for if a family no longer earns its money in questionable ways, the public gift does not have quite the same self-serving legitimating impact. But while the Cabots may now be hundreds of years removed from the wealth they earned in the slave trade, the Engelhard family South African connection lives on, albeit without Charles...
...personages of a divided Supreme Court in the Bakke case. Four justices agreed that the University of California at Davis Medical School had discriminated against white applicant Alan Bakke by maintaining a special minority admissions structure including quotas. Four other justices held that race should be a criterion in admissions decisions, in the interest of a diverse student body, like Harvard's. Justice Lewis Powell went both ways...
...this light, it is disturbing that Lawrence Stevens '65, a University spokesman, is apparently reverting to examination of United States firms employment practices in South Africa to decide if Harvard should call for their withdrawal from South Africa. Such a criterion totally neglects the corporations' role in supplying advanced technology, military equipment, and finance to the white-minority regime. As all United States corporations together employ 70,000 blacks in South Africa, to see how any improvement in their workers conditions will break down apartheid. At the same time, U.S. investors provide such crucial inputs as oil (40 per cent...
...there must be some people who are dedicated solely to the President, people who go flat out for this particular President. For me the criterion is, 'What's best for Jimmy Carter...
...intelligent people, are subjected to arbitrary and subjective decisions about receiving playing time. A method to improve the player selection process may be to have the players themselves pick the line-up on the basis of practice performance. This method ensures a sense of objectivity as the only criterion for selection is outstanding performance. While this may seem a bit drastic, the point to be emphasized is that there is room for improvement in the Harvard system. All that choose to devote as much time and energy as is demanded by football should be given a fair and equal chance...