Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public statement from Faculty members "assessing" the Klitgaard report's academic merit...
...jockeying for position increased, the decision to debate became even more important. Carter, so eager to accept, professed to find great merit in the willingness of both candidates to gamble everything on one roll of the TV dice. Said he: "I don't think it's a matter of who will win or lose. The American people will win. It's not a contest to see who's the best debater or the best orator or the most professional television performer. It is to draw the sharp distinction on the issues...
...many of the "elite universities" (as Prof. Klitgaard calls them) have responded to similar demands of their Third World students and have provided Centers (Yale, Princeton, Wellesley, Dartmouth, etc.). Of course the university's response was the typical smoke screen--a committee. Perhaps alleged embezzlement/drug use does not merit committee investigation, nor even an investigation by legal authorities. Perhaps Dean Epps can find it in his "discretion" to bail out a student alleged to be involved in criminal activities and can't grant the demand of a group of diverse students for a centrally located, university-financed, student-run Third...
...life on the line like that? Not a Frenchman, certainly, who would regard a scandal as droll; nor an Englishman, to be sure, who would regard it as an honor. No, only an American would blunder forth as in the Agee case, openly advocating fair play, the merit system, and the rights of privacy within the same declaration. Only an American would be so impatient as to prevent rumors from dying out on their own. It must be said too that only a male chauvinist American could make such a botch of chivalry...
...judicial appointments stack up as one of the most impressive parts of his record, at least among liberals and moderates. He has appointed more minorities and women to federal benches than all previous Presidents combined. Some observers have consequently questioned whether he is more concerned with diversity than merit, but C.I.J. Organizer Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment lawyer, maintains that most of his appointees are "extraordinarily highly qualified." During his Administration, Congress has created 152 additional lower-court judgeships. "With that many new judges the tendency should have been for lower quality: a few bright lights, then politics...