Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those days, only a small financial aid program existed, and ability to pay was [almost] as important a criterion for admission as intellectual ability. As a result, Harvard was mainly an enclave of the upper-middle and middle classes, who sent their sons--and occasionally their daughters--here for a diverting four-year waystop on the road to success...
...with this recommendation when nominating persons for tenured positions. It is questionable, however, that such evaluations of teaching ability will have much impact. The task force's own "guidelines for appointment" are notable for their exceptions to the task force belief that teaching ability should really be an important criterion in the appointment process. For instance, the report says that departments may still go ahead and appoint "minimally competent teachers," if they promise to somehow redress imbalances at a later date...
...Soviet dissidents. Trudeau felt the need to keep his voice lower. He hinted that maybe Carter had been a bit surprised at the response to his letter to Andrei Sakharov. But there was also a touch of admiration for a President who based important actions on the simple criterion of "what was right...
Jimmy Carter certainly meets your criterion for the selection: dominating the news of the previous year. But I also believe he will prove to be one of the best Presidents ever elected. Under Carter's direction the U.S. may actually become the good guys of international politics instead of just claiming that position...
Have you changed your criterion for selecting the Man of the Year? How can you imply that this man has done the most to change the world for good or evil during 1976? He couldn't do anything until...