Word: criterion
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...just the two years he was MVP of the National League, Morgan was the whirlwind in Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, and over his 21-year career he has been the most powerful and productive second baseman since Rogers Hornsby. Morgan meets the simplest Hall of Fame criterion. He was the best second baseman of his era. Even in his dotage, Morgan showed others how to win. Possibly 'his enthusiasm for canonizations is affected by a premonition that Morgan's and Rose's silent partner in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, Tony Perez, will be overlooked as usual...
...brought fame to the scholarship and endowed its holders with distinctive luster are its unusual criteria for selection. Rhodes disdained candidates who were "merely bookworms"; he demanded that the winners have the character to fight "the world's fight." Despite numerous modifications of his imperious vision, the basic criterion remains the same today. Says David Alexander, secretary of the Rhodes program in the U.S.: "The Rhodes competition is a talent hunt for an elite that will lead...
...classic definition of an epidemic is an outbreak of disease affecting 1% of the population. But most doctors now agree on a newer criterion and declare an epidemic whenever the incidence of a disease rises above its normal "background level," or rate of natural occurrence...
...across the board, supervisors stress that they consider an official's responsibilities, salary and job history, age--and his performance. Where the Faculty downplays performance as too elusive a criterion for determining professors' salaries, supervisors agree that it is the single most important factor determining how far an administrator's salary increase will diverge from the Corporation-set average for his position...
...rejection of a policy of nondiscrimination for gays being an obvious example. Rosovsky has also done much to perpetuate the flaws in Harvard's tenure process--its tendency to ignore all but old and well-established scholars who are frequently unavailable, its refusal to consider teaching ability as a criterion in senior faculty hiring, and its consistent rejection of promising junior professors whom Harvard would sometimes do well to gamble on, Finally, an unfortunate side effect of Rosovsky's centralized decision-making style has been the demotion of the Faculty as a whole from a lively forum for high-level...