Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, there was a third criterion, "negotiability": Was there any chance that the Soviets could be induced to accept a proposal? Negotiability ought to be a legitimate consideration in arms-control policymaking. It means simply keeping the enterprise within the realm of the possible and not wasting valuable time on mutual stonewalling. But during the first two years of the Reagan Administration, negotiability was almost a dirty word, a synonym for accommodation and pre-emptive concessions. Officials were chastised for even mentioning it in meetings...
...with cocaine." Says Kevin McEneaney, senior vice president of New York's Phoenix House drug-treatment center: "We all think our personalities are well grounded and well formed, but it doesn't take a lot to tilt the psychological balance." Bensinger, the former DEA chief, has his own plausible criterion for measuring that tilt: "What will they do to get it again? That's how you tell what's addictive...
...argued that reopening the issue would upset the delicate balance existing in the parched Southwest. He added that since developers and farmers have planned according to these hard-won agreements, "finality" dictates that the case remain closed. This is a strange argument, since finality hasn't been the historical criterion for judging government land agreements with Indian tribes--at least not the finality of rising suns and flowing rivers...
...disagree with your assessment that John Kennedy was not a great President because "his accomplishments were meager." If that is the criterion, then Thomas Jefferson, whose only significant achievement was the Louisiana Purchase, would not qualify for greatness...
...actions that contradict it, notably Reagan's lifting of the embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets. But it comes from too many sources to be discounted. At the very least, that stand is a refreshing change from having every issue judged by the Nixon Administration's immortal criterion: How will it play in Peoria...