Word: criterion
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Since the criterion for selecting the Man of the Year is based on the impact an individual has on the year's news events, good or bad, I nominate John Hinckley Jr. He showed how our judicial process allows a guilty person to be found not guilty. BillKlingJr. Huntsville...
Trying to obviate such ethical questions, the American Medical Association has issued guidelines stating that organs must be allocated to patients on a medical basis alone: "Social worth is not an appropriate criterion." Instead, the basic considerations are who needs it the most and who is the most likely to do well with the particular organ that is available...
...would not leave Beirut until all Israeli and Syrian forces had withdrawn from Lebanon. Officials at the State Department and White House subsequently issued elaborate clarifications of what Reagan really meant. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg insisted that the withdrawal of foreign troops was a goal but not "a criterion" for a U.S. departure. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Assistant Secretary of State Nicholas Veliotes set the end of this year as "the outer limit," while a Pentagon spokesman said the troops would be there "as long as necessary." Some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the casualties showed...
...Greenberg on account of race left some of the students' strongest supporters defending in print a position that the students seem to have disavowed. Christopher Edley, a Black assistant professor at the Law School, argued in a piece in the Washington Post that race was indeed a relevant criterion for the teacher of this course, since "Race remains a useful proxy for a whole collection of experiences, aspirations and sensitivities." Even Professor Bell endorsed in print the students' "call for a teacher whose credentials include experiences in and with racism similar to those the students have already suffered...
...deepening financial troubles and was eager to help give automakers at least some relief from the added design and manufacturing costs that would have resulted from installing the restraints. Last October, after further consideration, Peck scrapped the rule entirely on the grounds that it failed to meet a legal criterion that safety standards be "reasonable, practicable and appropriate...