Each assessor had to evaluate relevance with three levels, namely highly relevant (value equal to 2), relevant (value equal to 1) or irrelevant (value equal to 0).
"You are, like, Martha's ticket to relevance with the millennials," John said.
The issue had risen to unexpected relevance with the prosecution of a young woman who had self-administered abortion pills.
But the world has changed: it now competes for relevance with the art fairs that happen nearly every month around the world.
"The goal in general to be online is increasing our relevance with our 25-year-old beer drinker," the target audience for Coors Light, Mr. Sproul said.
Someone who equates a father's relevance with the ability to obtain an injunction against abortion needs to look beyond himself for his place in the family.
It also proved the scope of its relevance with one of the most articulate depictions of the war on terror that TV has ever dared to approach.
Last year, Wendy's CEO, Emil Brolick, claimed "the transformation of the Wendy's brand is essential … to establish credible relevance with the millennial generation".
Seeing it voiced by all these different contemporary characters reinforces an idea of its enduring relevance, with its barbed words somehow embedded in our shared cultural consciousness.
Then the first panel began, comfortably far from the realm of policy relevance, with a discussion among leading scientists of dark energy, the nature of consciousness, and the fate of the universe, led by Alan Alda.
And though the events it depicts might no longer seem like recent history to some, its analysis of the relationships between personal and political integrity, and between ideological sincerity and fanaticism, has, if anything, gained greater relevance with time.
