Word: merit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Share Perplexity. The board's most complex decision came as it struggled to divulge what Savoie calls "ersatz earnings"-per-share profits derived from fancy financial footwork. This is a sensitive matter because many investors mistakenly believe that they can gauge a stock's merit simply by checking per-share earnings. The board ruled that companies with a complicated mix of securities may no longer merely divide their net profits by the number of shares outstanding to arrive at per-share earnings. Instead, companies must reduce the net to allow for future conversion of all warrants and some...
...current war effort. Students should not allow the political and moral concerns of dissenting students to be clouded over or ignored by charges of trespassing on university property. The quality of a conscientiously objecting act is radically different from a criminal one and in no way should merit the type of police action taken against it here at Harvard. The malicious clubbing of unarmed demonstrators, to my mind, constitutes criminal negligence on the part of the police and represents an intolerable violation of human rights. Bill Puka, GSAS
...says Hoffer. "It's wonderful that a man who is so denigrated turns out to be so good. I glory in it." Few other observers share Hoffer's extravagant enthusiasm, but TIME correspondents around the country find that many others who voted for Hubert Humphrey also find merit-if only grudgingly-in the Republican President...
Percussive Sublimation, the pseudo-promotion commonly known as kicking a man upstairs. Because it appears to be yet another promotion for merit, percussive sublimation has the added benefit of justifying the executive who promoted the man to his level of incompetence in the first place. Both this principle and the lateral arabesque point up an inadequacy in C. Northcote Parkinson's well-known law. Work not only expands to fit the time allotted but, says Author Peter, "it can expand far beyond that...
...Angeles, who reported to the coach at the IAB two weeks ago, have been waiting patiently for the alma mater to involve them in the basketball program and responded eagerly to the new coach's enthusiasm. Marsch, a former Celtic and one of three Harvard players to merit first team All-Ivy notice, has recruited extensively in the Los Angeles ghettoes for tall, smart, and motivated athletes...