Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costliest flaw in the system has been the absence of incentives. Industrial workers are virtually guaranteed employment for life. More than that, rewarding merit is considered dangerously unsocialist. When the government allocated money for merit bonuses five years ago, most managers chose to hand out across the-board wage hikes to hard worker and laggard alike...
Four years ago, the Sociology Department refused to recommend Associate Professor of Sociology Theda R. Skocpol for tenure; Skocpol claimed gender discrimination, and a Harvard grievance committee found merit to her claim...
...past, similar bidding arrangements have been affected by congressional politicking, and there is nobody among some of the applicants that political muscle rather than merit may prevail...
...proposal is judged on merit, we have a very good chance to get it," said Karl Weiss, vice-president for research at Northeastern University...
...difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first as a feminist writer, later as a purveyor of visionary science fiction. "I wanted to be reviewed on merit, as a new writer, without the benefit of a 'name,' " she asserts, "to get free of that cage of associations and labels that every established writer has to learn to live inside...