Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRADITIONALLY, government funding for scientific research has been granted to institutions via a merit-review process--in which peer committees review grant proposals and award money to the most qualified applicants...
...McCormick, director of off-campus work-study at BU. She says that the ratio of on-campus/off-campus workers was once 60/40 but has continually lessened through the years. "Students find it convenient to work on-campus. Campuses create more jobs for work-study, and reward students with merit increases for staying at the same...
...Theatricals' choice of Sylvester Stallone as its Man of the Year has come amidst much ballyhoo and expression of outrage within the Harvard community. A slaughterer of senior citizens in the epic movie Death Race 2000 and an exterminator of Third World peoples in Rambo, Stallone surely does not merit one of the University's most prestigious honors, so say his Harvard critics...
...exclusivity of the Final Clubs is based more on chance than on any special merit common to the members. (As, to some extent, is membership in Harvard College itself; residence in a sparsely populated state distinguishes many a successful applicant from Great Neck peers consigned to the Other Place.) Those chances once included being of the right sex, income bracket, family, race, and religion. Now only one circumstance remains sine qua non. As the luck of being born female is prerequisite to becoming a Cliffie, that of being born male is necessary to becoming a Clubbie...
...offers an electrifying moment near the end, when the words of the play-within-a-play suddenly take on majesty by underlining the blasted emotional landscape surrounding their author. Sellars, 28, remains a figure of promise more than attainment, but even his failures, like this one, have the merit of a distinctive signature...