Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly one officially sanctioned by the University. We do not need another organizational structure that sees students as consumers of Harvard's services. We need to change Harvard's power system. Right now, Harvard hears only what it wants to hear. The centralization and institutionalization of impotence does not merit support...
...argument that merit alone should determine college and graduate school admissions is invalid because "the standard of merit and the basis for the meritocracy are socio-economic tests," Bell said, noting that special admittance for athletes, alumni children and others has been accepted for years...
...that subject, the negotiators offered a remarkable joint statement: "It is solely by grace and by faith in Christ's saving work, and not because of any merit in us, that we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit who . . . calls us to good works." That is just about what Luther was trying to say when he split the church asunder...
...ever had." And that from the man who handled the sizzling careers of Suzanne Somers and Farrah Fawcett. Davis, nee Reagan, assumed her mother Nancy's maiden name in 1974, she explains, "to have a better chance of having my work judged on its own merit." Is that how it is now being judged? Well, concedes the future First Daughter, "the extra exposure helps...
...with rubble. There is far less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding the entire structure of our social and religious life...