Word: merit
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Schweiker backed into a buzz saw when he and Stockman jointly proposed a plan to reform Social Security by reducing benefits. Regardless of the degree to which the plan had merit, and elements of it had a lot, it was met with bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill. Reagan had to disclaim it. For a man who served two terms in the Senate, Schweiker showed himself surprisingly inept in dealing with Congress. He earns a middling C, but only because he does not deserve blame for all of what has happened in his realm...
...future lot, and not without a trace of envy. Jim McKay had made a luncheon arrangement to "get acquainted." Cliff Roberts, head of the Masters, had duly noted Bogart Jackson's name on a list of probables, feeling confident he would win a tournament soon and merit a berth in the most prestigious of TPA tournaments...
...clarity and accessibility of Fisher and Ury's presentation is one of their most appealing virtues, if anything proof of the power of their approach, not its lack of merit. E=MC2 is not "an untenable proposition" because it has been simply stated. Astonishingly, Engelmayer seems to have confused simple explanatory examples with the persuasive argument of the book. Luckily, I know of no other reader who has done the same...
...increase in a single year. Quality of incoming freshmen has also improved. At V.M.I., for instance, the average 1981 combined SAT score has jumped to 1,048-36 points higher than it was a decade ago and well above the national average of 890. This fall 18 National Merit Scholars matriculated at Washington and Lee; three years ago there were only three...
...cases. In 1970, the Governor vetoed a $1.8 million grant to California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) because a Reagan-requested inquiry had found 135 apparent incidents of misconduct by the group's lawyers. CRLA survived that threat when a three-judge commission declared the charges "unfounded and without merit...