Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some editors said the original plan abandoned the principle of selecting members for the prestigious law journal on the basis of merit. The Review reconsidered its affirmative action position on Wednesday afternoon...
...completely rely on television and porno flicks that we are not surprised when the producers fall back on cliched trick endings to escape from beneath the mountain of one-liners they have created. Instead of thinking, "My, wasn't that a hair-brained half-hour, completely devoid of artistic merit," we are supposed to say, "Gee, that really did have a point, didn...
...forget it. The play unfolds through sketchy vignettes, some of which are disconcerting, such as the ones that have Marcel Cerdan, the French middleweight champion and Piaf's love of loves, being played by a black, and a Marlene Dietrich who is downright frumpy. A medal of merit should be struck for Zoë Wanamaker; as the prostitute pal of Piaf's who later achieves smug respectability, she is a perfect foil for Lapotaire, and their scenes together are wickedly droll...
...when it resumed debate Tuesday, two professors immediately rose to challenge the study's recommendation that the University implement policies requiring departments to recruit minority and women faculty aggressively--they argued the policies would undercut the importance of merit in hiring...
...contract, replacing one that ran out June 30, included additional 3 percent raises for merit and raises for part-time faculty members on both the Amherst and Boston campuses of UMass, Peter P. D'Errico, president of MSP, the union's Amherst branch, said yesterday...