Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE President Johnson before him, President Nixon merits impeachment for a crime so high other misdemeanors pale beside it: Waging war, for years on end, against a nation whose only crime was to struggle for freedom. It's almost comical that Nixon should also merit--and conceivably undergo--impeachment for obstructing justice in the Watergate case...
LIKE President Johnson before him, President Nixon merits impeachment for a crime so high other misdemeanors pale beside it: Waging war, for years on end, against a nation whose only crime was to struggle for freedom. It's almost comical that Nixon should also merit--and conceivably undergo--impeachment for obstructing justice in the Watergate case...
...accomplishment is more than an elecutionary victory or a shown of virtuosity in an isolated game. Debate's peculiar value is as a forum for the intensive testing of policy alternatives. For their demonstrated ability with this form of policy evaluation, the members of Harvard's championship team merit a great deal of respect...
Editorial Impression. The verdict left Mobil officials "disappointed" and the question of "inaccuracies" in the ABC special unresolved. Some of Mobil's complaints seem specific enough to merit more than a blanket dismissal. To the ABC statements that Government policy encourages foreign oil exploration at the expense of domestic drilling, for instance, Mobil responded that over the past ten years it has devoted about two-thirds of its exploration funds to projects in the U.S. In refusing to deal individually with such areas of disagreement, the council defended ABC's right to create any "editorial impression" it wants...
...dismal preoccupation with the author's public image. Like her characters, she is unvaryingly selfconscious, whether gloomy or skittish ("Tm raving and talking nonsense, but so what!"). Early on, Françoise Sagan confides: "I even doubt whether I'll show this to my publisher." There was merit in that doubt...