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• n  a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
• n  the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

• Visa aspirants are unable to fathom the criterion upon which their applications were rejected.
• It was difficult to find even five persons satisfying the stringent criterion set by the hiring team.
• While promoting Mr Heinz to the post of Senior Director, the most important criterion that was looked at was mental agility.

• standard
• measure
• touchstone

News & Articles

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• Lynn Parramore: Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser
  Apparently, the most important criterion for getting an important post in the Obama Administration is telling Big Lies, better yet with data. Jason Furman claims Walmart is a “progressive success story.”
  June 12, 2013 - Naked Capitalism
• Black Forest Fire forces mail delivery reroute for 4,000 addresses
  The spread of the Black Forest fire has affected mail delivery for nearly 4,000 addresses. For those in the Black Forest area, mail will be held at the U.S. Post Office’s Briargate Station, 8585 Criterion Drive, and can be picked up at the side door in the lobby from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call [...]
  June 12, 2013 - Colorado Springs Business Journal
• Lynn Parramore: Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser
  Apparently, the most important criterion for getting an important post in the Obama Administration is telling Big Lies, better yet with data. Jason Furman claims Walmart is a “progressive success story.”
  June 12, 2013 - Naked Capitalism

Quotes

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• President Bush in ABC Online
  I'm pleased that this agreement meets the criterion that I set forth last week to provide an effective, robust and temporary set of incentives that will boost our economy and encourage job creation,Mr Bush told reporters at the White House....
• Anthony Kennedy in Wired News
  Machine-or-transformation might have been fine for the Industrial Age, "but there are reasons to doubt whether the test should be the sole criterion for determining the patentability of inventions in the Information Age," wrote Justice Anthony...
• Barack Obama in Coshocton Tribune
  Obama said, "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by...