Word: merit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While Bok argues, with merit, that hecklers have the right to communicate their disapproval of a speech, he makes a useful analogy to suggest that this right exists only in so far as it does not interfere with a "speaker's ability to communicate and the rights of other members of the audience to listen," Bok invokes the maxim: "Your freedom to swing your first stops at the point of my nose." Bok could have gone further; absent is perhaps the most potent argument against the hecklers--that the democracy they epitomize is one in which the loudest voices prevail...
Bank St. had argued that the award was improper because the NIE director, Manuel J. Justiz, had ignored the advice of a technical review panel that the New York college get the money instead. The panel gave Bank St. slightly higher marks for technical merit and economy, but Justiz was understood to have chosen Harvard because of the larger scope of its proposal and its greater resources...
Bank St. had argued that the award was improper because the NIE director, Manuel J. Justiz, had ignored the advice of a technical review panel that the New York college get the money instead. The panel gave Bank St. slightly higher marks for technical merit and economy, but Justiz was understood to have chosen Harvard because of the larger scope of its proposal and its greater resources...
Bank St. had argued that the award was improper because the NIE director, Manuel J. Justiz, had ignored the advice of a technical review panel that the New York college get the money instead. The panel gave Bank St. slightly higher marks for technical merit and economy, but Justiz was understood to have chosen Harvard because of the larger scope of its proposal and its greater resources...
...criteria for an exemption are really so strict that she does not merit one, Ferraro suggested, then the other 17 House members who claim it should be set right, too. "You can carry it to the full extreme," she said, and the law would require that "you have two separate refrigerators." The exemption criteria do indeed seem impossibly narrow. Says a male Mondale adviser: "It's a man's law, written by men with men in mind." The system isn't set up to deal with two-income families." But sensible or not, the rules are clear, and have been...