Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only two women in the history of the Business School have been given tenure it's hard to believe that this could occur with a strictly merit based system," said Evan Lawson, Jackson's Jackson's lawyer for the case...
...animate the Students in the pursuit of literary merit and fame, and to excite in their breasts a noble spirit of emulation there shall be annually a public examination, in the preference of a joint committee of the Corporation and Overseers and such other gentlemen as may be inclined to attend it," a 1790 law reads...
...chairs Common Cause-a non-partisan lobby concerned with honesty and accountability in government institutions-said that "PACs have made elections more and more a competition of money rather than of the ideas, character, and merit of the candidates...
Harvard argued that the 93-year old, Queen Anne style building did not merit preservation as an historically significant property. In addition. Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice president for community affairs, said it would not be cost effective to renovate the units in their current architectural style...
...audience for the festival. Yet it has also imposed the unrealistically high expectation that every play produced there must have a floodlit afterlife. If there were no surefire contenders for SRO signs among this year's offerings, that should count for less than the fact that most showed some merit and four glowed with intelligence and passion...