Others define them as companies that re-invest their profits rather than distributing them; but Microsoft would fulfil that criterion.
That is his criterion for dividing the American Jewish community into good Jews and bad Jews a practice with a sordid history.This is silly.
If the IMF were to change its criterion it would be able to defend itself against accusations that it employs technicians who are second-line economists.
The Public Interest and the New Criterion worry about popular culture.
Fraser, the most senior official within Treasury, said in February that fairness was an important criterion for a well-functioning tax system.
Practice looked less than perfect when, just two weeks ago, John Hope Franklin, the distinguished black historian who heads Mr Clinton's advisory panel on race, decided not to hear evidence from Ward Connerly, the black University of California regent who led the successful campaign to ban race as a criterion for admission to California's public universities.
So there is a good chance that the economy will be feebler still, and shrink in both quarters, meeting the usual criterion for a recession.Does this put the gurus of Threadneedle Street at odds with the Treasury, which last week, to howls of derision from sceptical economists, forecast growth of 1-1.5 1-1.5%year, recoverinext yearween 2.25% and 2.75% in 2000?
But whoever becomes president will be even more immediately concerned to get talks on EU membership—for both halves of the island off to a good start on March 31st.If economics were the sole criterion, the Greek-Cypriots could join the club double-quick and qualify for the single currency, too.
But along with the criteria was a further declaration: that "the union's capacity to absorb new members...is also an important consideration in the general interest of both the union and the candidate countries".The distinction between a formal "criterion" and a mere "consideration" sounds abstruse and semantic, but in practice it has been vital to the EU's recent expansion.
We were pleasantly surprised by how well we've done when buying appliances, even though energy efficiency wasn't our main criterion – in fact, it wasn't even on the list.
Obviously I meet that criterion without even breaking sweat.
