Word: merit
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Several objections can be made against refusing to buy from firms on social or ethical grounds. Because of the infinite variety of corporation activities and practices, it would be difficult to develop consistent standards to determine when a company's behavior was sufficiently objectionable to merit this treatment. Such an effort would also raise extremely difficult and divisive questions. If an university health service purchases abortion services from a neighboring clinic, some people may claim that it is subsidizing murder while others will insist that the practice is legitimate, and perhaps even obligatory...
...Labor Department, charging that the school has ignored federal affirmative action guidelines. The Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) also charged that the K-School had failed to adequately advertise faculty openings in minority-and women-oriented publications. The Labor Department report found the WEAL complaint "not without merit," according to the source...
...because of this pervading hypocricy that it is distressing to watch preppy fashion pervade Harvard. This vogue would be harmless if it were nothing more than an unsightly Public Display of Affectation. But Prep implies that some of us are more equal than others--by virtue not of intrinsic merit but of money. America must reconcile this obvious inequality of wealth with its professed democratic ideals by dispelling the myth that differences in income reflect personal merit...
While some rich people have done nothing to merit their fortunes, others have accumulated riches honestly, through hard work. But when these various species of rich people all adopt a certain set of peculiar and expensive manners, customs and attire, a pattern emerges. If they can convince the rest of us that their peculiar whims constitute good taste, they succeed in creating the impression that they are superior. Giving status to preppy fashions sported by the rich helps legitimize their wealth, however they may have obtained...
Supporters of the Schlafly view will have to ignore J. Clay Smith Jr., acting director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who testified that sexual Schlafly harassment "is a real problem." Also the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board study of a group of government-employed women, of which 42% reported such intimidation. And the harassment charges cropping up continually on college campuses, in the armed forces and at businesses of every kind. Plus last year's survey of state workers in Illinois-Schlafly's home state-which found that a majority of working women were leered at, pawed...