Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of assessment that send University administrators scurrying to far easier tasks like budget-balancing and tuition-raising. It is one thing to decide that learning from performers is a valuable experience for students. It is quite another to decide which performers are valuable enough to 'society" to merit a tenured teaching post at Harvard...
Only one Chinese woman holds a top post through her own merit or political power, Chen Muhua, the Minister of Economic Relations with Foreign Countries. Said Cho Lin in her toast at a State Department lunch...
Much of Strangers concerns itself with Lewis's failure to write anything of merit after winning his Nobel Prize. The writer who loses his ability to write is an agonizing, highly personal subject that has rarely been handled well on stage--probably because it attracts writers who themselves are struggling to write something, and this subject allows them to be miserably self-indulgent and generally unperceptive...
LouAnn Walker '76 also joined to play squash, but thinks some members' attitudes as well as the locker room facilities merit renovation. "Some men there really dislike women intensely," she says. She finds the almost all-male atmosphere "very oppressive" and remembers several hostile outbursts from male members, including a denunciation by a member who accused Walker and a fellow squash player of using the club as "a girly pickup...
...would deny that there is a distinct Kennedy charm, but the Massachusetts Senator has displayed too many contradictions in his personal life and his policy statements to merit serious consideration. "Feeling good again" might be an appropriate slogan for a health spa, but not for a presidential campaign...