Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps owners should contribute a fee to this proposed fund proportional to the weight of their pets. Toy poodles simply don't merit the same costs as great danes...
This house selection process offers two advantages over the old and new system. First, it would reduce the anxiety and tension felt in the Yard during house selection time. Second, houses would be selected by frosh on merit alone. Erick Kaardal...
...laissez-faire housing makes your stomache turn, here's another fair solution: housing based on merit. When Phi Beta Kappa keys or summa and magna degrees are awarded, few people question how deserving the recipients are. If academic achievement and distinction are the currency of the Harvard community, why not let this success principle determine the housing system...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...
...virtually decriminalized in some states and cities. Says Los Angeles Labor Lawyer Glenn Rothner: "Termination for marijuana use, or worse, for simply having minute traces of marijuana in the body when tested is sentencing these employees to the equivalent of corporate capital punishment for an offense that would only merit a $100 fine in California...