Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pauline Kael has done so unfortunately with movies like Shampoo and Last Tango in Paris. The disaster film is an urban adventure, like a police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with an ingratiating morality, a wealth of invention in the heroism department, and a certain measure of abstract visual beauty, the formula--even if formulae can only take us a small way towards greatness in art--is irresistible, and critical preconceptions are extinguished in a blaze of glory...
...states, "Furthermore, quotas completely overlook merit where it should be the basis for consideration." There can be no question of merit in deciding if different racial groups should have equal opportunities for quality education in public facilities. This is a self-evident constitutional guarantee. Anyway, the case in Boston is clear--race, not merit or other considerations, has for many years been the basis of both busing patterns and school location decisions...
...Hara bill calls for a reduction in BEOG funding, the linking of SEOG grants to academic merit as well as financial need, and a gradual phasing out of NDSL and Guaranteed Student Loans...
...only arbitrary and unworkable, they are wrong, wrong in school assignments, hiring, or membership in any organization. Quotas cause people to be treated differently on the basis of their race, with the effect of excluding people from many positions because of their race. Furthermore, quotas completely overlook merit where it should be the basis for consideration. If a disproportionate number of Jews study and work enough to become doctors, then a disproportionate number of Jews should be doctors...
...without: the fact that the burden of one American on the environment is eight times greater than that of his Third World counterpart; and the fact that our present wealth derives in large part from the unusual abundance of the American land, and has no relation to our merit as people...