Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee will evaluate the academic merit of the Afro-American Studies program...
...highest quality. This presidential conduct, resulting in the inclusion in the list of some plainly unqualified persons, demeans the Court and risks undermining public respect for it so as to impair its performance of its crucially important role. Some of the persons named may turn out to merit serious consideration. The flawed process which generated their candidacies argues, however, for the most meticulous and searching examination by the ABA Committee and the Senate...
...discovered by police in his possession, he produced a bill of sale allegedly signed by another person whose whereabouts were never located. Police claim that there was a strong resemblance between the handwriting on the bill of sale and Jackson's. However, either because there was insufficient evidence to merit the charge or because of Jackson's age, he was not prosecuted for forgery or for the theft of the bike. He was later released to his parents...
...Sooners narrowed the gap on the defending national champions from 168 points to 38 after whipping Colorado 45-17 last Saturday to merit 18 top votes and 1,008 points from a panel of 55 sports writers and broadcasters...
Chronologically Maurice comes between what must be considered Forster's two greatest novels, Howard's End and A Passage to India. It in no way has their literary merit. It has neither their complexity nor their satiric edge. But it has more of the man that was Forster, and it is to be read...