Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting Bowersock also reported that the Faculty had voted to allow greater flexibility in considering students for summa cum laude who did not meet a particular grade-point average. Bowersock said "students who had proved their merit in other ways could get 'summas' as a result of this change...
...Carter's own fault. During his campaign he rashly declared, "All federal judges and prosecutors should be appointed strictly on the basis of merit without any consideration of political aspects or influence." Such appointments are traditionally made on a frankly political basis, and once Carter was ensconced in the Oval Office, that tradition was fully honored. Of the first 65 U.S. Attorneys named by the new Administration, 64 were Democrats. As House Speaker Tip O'Neill put it, "That's the way the System works." And, he might have added, the way Congressmen and Governors want...
...federal judges and prosecutors should be appointed strictly on the basis of merit without any consideration of political aspects or influence...
...least: although Carter denied being aware of it, Eilberg has been implicated in a Marston investigation into financial irregularities in the construction of a Philadelphia hospital. While smilingly ignoring questions on why Marston was being dumped, Carter insisted that the choice of his replacement would be made "on merit and not politics...
Consider, as evidence, the January issue. The cover piece, by California Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, attacks Congress's free-spending ways and describes the benefits Hayakawa believes make voluntary unemployment increasingly attractive. Another article argues for a pure merit system and against the affirmative-action position in the Allan Bakke case before the U.S. Supreme Court. December's lead piece attacked the environmentalists in their long-running dispute with Consolidated Edison over location of a power plant in the Hudson River Valley. The November cover featured National Review Editor and Yale-man William F. Buckley...