Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrate that point: it's impossible for affirmative action appointments to be announced in public because to speak of someone as an affirmative action appointment is to insult that person by implying, or even saying that that appointment would not have been made on the basis of merit...
Mansfield: Yes, indeed, I would make a distinction between admissions and hiring. I would make a distinction between those situations where merit is expected and required, and a situation where a community must be filled and sustained. An undergraduate body is a kind of community. If it doesn't have a substantial proportion of Blacks and women, then it is defective as a community. One could easily fill up places at Harvard with 100 people with the highest SAT scores. We've never done that. We didn't do that before affirmative action, and we're not going...
...traditionalist in a rootless industry, a believer in long-term growth in a market hooked on quick profit and instant gratification, a technological skeptic among scientific true believers. Morgan had run the Philip Morris tobacco-marketing division, whose products included such fast-rising brands as Virginia Slims and Merit, with an almost ostentatious lack of computers. He preferred writing meticulous longhand notes on legal pads to punching numbers into a machine...
...Balance makes good viewing. Some of the acting is stellar a number of scenes more than make up for the predictability of the rest. The three Cesars (French "Oscars") this movie has garnered, however, probably have more to do with exoticism than with cinematic merit. Thinking of a Maxwell House coffee as Cafe American, after all will make it slightly more drinkable...
...otherwise simple bookkeeping task becomes complicated because so many students receive financial aid from Harvard or outside the University, like National Merit Scholarships...