Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that leadership has no place in a democratic society--in fact, it is fundamental to it, especially in its capacity for establishing and protecting public discourses and mounting challenges to dominant ideas. But that leadership is not to be selected by the mass of people according to some objective criterion (such as the ability to understand Jurgen Habermas); rather, it has to be self-motivated and has to persist as an ever-humming potential waiting to emerge--and blossoming from--within a democratic political process that is accessible...
...Faculty Council offered a similar option. However, in its version, students would need to take four language courses, or two years, to satisfy the Foreign Cultures requirement. This suggestion unfortunately fails criterion No. 3. But the spirit of the recommendation is sound: foreign cultures are best approached through the languages their members speak...
...Some rational choice scholars do well according to this latter criterion and some do not; those who do not use rational choice distribute themselves in a similar fashion," Shepsle writes...
...fund named Rudenstine the "Legal Defense Fund 1997 Honoree" for his efforts defending diversity as a criterion in hiring and admissions in higher education...
Last year, the College slipped in the survey because the magazine was able for the first time to use the percentage of classes' enrolling more than 50 students as a criterion...