Word: merit
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...students without regard to need. Southern Methodist University offers four years of free tuition (value: $30,000) to students who meet a series of criteria, including SAT scores of 1320 or higher. Trinity University in San Antonio offers as much as $20,000 over four years to National Merit scholars. Trinity attracted ten finalists in 1981, had 54 in 1983, and as of last week had promises from 124 out of a class of 600 for next fall. Is Trinity buying students? Says Admissions Dean Rudolph Gaedke: "We play hardball, but so does everyone else...
Consumers Union's victory has cost several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. Even so, if the Consumers Union decision helps weed out libel actions of little merit, the public interest will have been served. Said Consumers Union Executive Director Rhoda Karpatkin: "Our determination to go to the wall on this case rather than settle it anywhere along the way has been vindicated...
...requests for continued aid to the Salvadoran army and Nicaragua's contras bottled up in Congress, an intriguing question arises: Could the U.S. funnel arms to Central America through Israel? U.S. officials refused to address the question directly last week, but they conceded that it had the merit Of being logical. Israel has looked on Central America with a kind eye ever since Nicaragua allowed Jewish freedom fighters to ship arms into Israel under the Nicaraguan flag in the late 1940s. In return, Jerusalem has long supplied weapons to several Central American countries, including Guatemala and Honduras. Total sales...
...pretty neat things have happened in the last few days down in Providence enough to merit a broad reconsideration of the city, in fact. Because if you like good civic scandals. Providence's current brouhaha is about the best in recent memory...
...sequestering of women towards products designed specifically for allegedly female tastes. Klein, on the other hand, tailored his ad to sell underwear to both women and men, capitalizing on a new desire among women to appear androgynous. You look a bit farther and you see the old and familiar Merit ad, and you wonder why there's a Captain of unclear military affiliation always in the inset. What's Merit's plan? Tapping into new respect for the military...