Word: merit
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...franchise's merit is now measured largely is terms of money--the national reputation of the Dallas Cowboys. "America's Team," helped raise their price to $70 million in a recent sale. The NFL, which has a purchaser must own at least 51% of the team a stock, watched silently s a consortium of local businessmen bought the team, $70 million is a lot of money, considering that one could have purchased a team for $100 during the '30s, but it is a sound investment--the NFL's TV package alone brings each team $15 million a year...
...June 1983, without interest. Thomas became Meese's aide at a salary of $59,500 on Jan. 29,1981. He moved back to California in February 1982, as a regional administrator of the General Services Administration, earning $69,600. His wife Gretchen got a federal job with the Merit Systems Protection Board at $30,402 in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 1982. Meese obviously had chosen his own deputy. If the appointment of Thomas was made in return for the financial help, that would be a crime...
...easiest riposte to such new political thought is to claim it does not exist ("Where's the beef?"). By dismissing a new notion out of hand, a critic hopes to pre-empt debate on the idea without being forced to wrestle with the merit or the substance. For longer than anyone in Washington can remember, Presidents have been confronted by frothing opponents who claim, "He has no foreign [or domestic] policy." Translated, that generally means, "I won't accept his ideas but I don't have anything of my own." Fortunately, such obfuscation does not prevail long...
...salary of $59,500. Thomas left the Meese staff in 1982 to become a regional administrator of the General Services Administration in San Francisco, a $69,600 Government post. His wife Gretchen was appointed on Sept. 5, 1982, to a $30,402 federal job with the Merit Systems Protection Board. They join a lengthening list of Meese benefactors who got appointive jobs from the Reagan Administration. They include...
...amount of money involved was too small to merit a follow-up investigation, the officer explained