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"Wal-Mart is the only Maryland employer that meets this criteria."

ARGH!

Criterion! Criterion, you silly newscaster, who makes your very living from using the English language! "These criteria" I could have swallowed even though you only described a single criterion, but "this criteria" is right out!

You even paused a moment to consider the phrasing before saying that last phrase, and still got it wrong! ARGH!

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Why're you all looking at me? Doesn't everybody yell at the television? At least I don't scream at "this data" any more -- I just silently wince at that one. I've been known to applaud on the rare occasions when I hear "these data" though ...