Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performance criterion] was to have the system up and running, and they still don't have the system up and running. By any measurable standard they are not fully operational," said Tracey Robinson, assistant director for systems management for the Harvard University Library...
Especially troubling is his identification of "moral worth" as a quality which should be rewarded in an ideal meritocracy. While this opinion makes intuitive sense, its implementation as a criterion for selecting outstanding individuals would be much more discriminatory than the use of intelligence tests. For all of its inadequacies, the SAT does not attempt to test opinions. Any selection based on "morals," on the other hand, would reward those who agree with those in power about what is and is not "morally good." Suddenly, anyone who is pro-choice or pro-life, a fundamentalist or an atheist, could...
...wouldn't want it to just go to our faculty advisor every year but that depends on how the board interprets [the criterion of having direct influence on the BGLTSA]," she said...
...Albright, standing aside in the face of atrocities was not an option. The Rambouillet meeting, she feels, was necessary to persuade the Europeans, who had never been comfortable aiding the Albanian Muslims, to use force to stop Serbia. By that criterion, Rambouillet succeeded: it enabled Albright to compel the Europeans (and her Washington colleagues...
...based upon this weekend. Up until this point l had been hoping for a striking epiphany that would reveal to me the place l was meant to be--a quasi-religious recognition of `home' in the Yard. Now it seemed clear that l would have to find some alternate criterion...