Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been recognized twice. For writing it, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb won the Loeb Award for business journalism (named for Financier Gerald Loeb, no kin to Marshall) and last week the John Hancock Award for business writing. In addition, the American Bar Association has given TIME a Certificate of Merit for its coverage of the final year of the Watergate affair. Singled out for special recognition were Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, Associate Editor Jose Ferrer III and Staff Writer Donald Morrison...
...Office under total Government control. The trouble with this idea is that it invites a return of the abuses and inefficiencies of the Post Office, which was inflexibly bureaucratic and ridden with politics. The virtue of a Government corporation is that it can make appointments on the basis of merit alone, transfer funds as it thinks best without bureaucratic controls, and plan ahead and borrow money for modernization...
...popular one. There have been rumblings in Congress all year about abolishing affirmative action as it now stands, especially those parts of it that deal with the establishment of "goals." Congressmen seem to be afraid that those goals are actually quotas and that quotas significantly reduce considerations of merit in the hiring process. The goals system--which requires employers to file with the government numerical expectations of how well they think they will fare in increasing their minority and female representation--has drawn particular criticism from academics who see it as an abrogation of the pure scholarly values that should...
...inner-city blackboard jungle but suburban Evanston Township High School on Chicago's elm-shaded, affluent North Shore. For years the high school has been known as one of the best in the nation, and it still earns that reputation. The current senior class has nine Merit Scholars, the largest number in the school's 92-year history. Evanston's innovative curriculum offers 260 courses and programs; the campus includes a planetarium and television studio...
...marry Judy after 15 minutes," he says, "and I asked Paulette [age 16] after 29 hours." The obedient wives, most of whom work as waitresses in Joseph's nearby Red Desert Inn, profess to believe in the Josephian faith. Says Joni, who turned down a $6,000 National Merit scholarship to marry him: "Polygamy provides the sense of fulfillment I never experienced at the First Baptist Church in Billings." Although polygamy is illegal, authorities have trouble prosecuting it. Says Kane County Sheriff Norman Swapp: "Sure it's against the law, but I can't even prove...