Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a White House debate in which both sides used "the Reagan argument" with particular skill. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis insisted that the 5¢ boost should be considered a "user fee," calculated to make those who drive on federally financed highways pay for their upkeep. The contention has some merit, but its real point was to avoid that awful word tax. Stockman countered by arguing that whatever it might be called, using a federal impost to finance repair work done by states and localities would violate Reagan's New Federalism concept. The President, however, recalled that as Governor of California...
...Walcott case first became public last spring when a female freshman charged that Walcott had made improper advances to her in a poetry class. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky ruled that the charge "had merit" and informed Walcott's permanent employer, Boston University (B. U) of the incident Walcott decided the charges...
...government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the week's best news came, ironically, from Damascus, where leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization strongly criticized President Reagan's Middle East peace plan. Though P.L.O. moderates, including Chairman Yasser Arafat, saw some merit in the plan, which calls for Palestinian self-rule of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan, hard-liners strongly opposed it because it does not provide for an independent Palestinian state. The P.L.O.'s attack on the Reagan plan was fine with Begin, who has denounced it ever since it was offered...
...knelt, cried for a minute and left behind his campaign medals: Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit. Another, like many of the veterans in olive drab, added his name to an ad hoc battalion sheet someone had staked in the ground; he stood back, saluted, saw his reflection in the polished black stone, then let out a kind of agonized whimper before two buddies led him away. An Illinois mother ran her fingers once, twice across the name JERRY DANAY, who was killed by a rocket. "It makes me feel closer," Helen Danay said as she remembered...
...salary raises, they are first roughly calculated faculty-wide, and only then subjected to case-by-case adjustment. To explain this effort to downplay individual professors' merit and achievement. Harvard deans like to smile and say. "All our professors are stars...