Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign language proficiency might seem to be the prime criterion, but other qualities top the editors' list. The applicants must demonstrate writing ability--the application requires two essays and one editing sample--and "rugged" travel experience...
...policy contrary to self-interest." She requires that the policy was perceived as folly in its own time, that a sensible alternative was available, and that the policy nonetheless was carried out by a group over more than one political lifetime. She makes one exception to that last criterion, the brief episode of the wooden horse at Troy...
...Granger as the two college psychopaths. That leaves Rear Window, a delicious entertainment mixing romance, voyeurism, homicide and humor with the purring sensuousness and perfect waxed beauty of the young Grace Kelly, and Vertigo, a gorgeously illustrated text-book of Hitchcock's themes that meets just about every criterion for movie greatness...
...grand scheme of things, but it is indicative of a growing laxness on the part of all governmental branches to accept and protect religious plurality. In a rather shocking passage the majority opinion states "we have repeatedly emphasized our unwillingness to be confined to any single test or criterion in this sensitive area." The statement seems to symbolize the court's apparent willingness to back down on previously stringent criteria in the face of conservative pressure and the friendliness of the season...
Nearly three-quarters of the Law School's first year class threatened to boycott the 97-year-old student-run journal of legal opinion, charging that grades were an arbitrary criterion for selection. Perceived by many as a stepping stone to lucrative jobs and elite academic appointments, the Review looms large before aspiring first year students...