Word: merit
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...Poulios). Far from the tender young prince we know and love, Poulios' Ferdinand was a sex offender in another life. 90210-style, he's cool, he's cut, and he wants just one thing. God knows what inspired this revision, but it sure wasn't textual support or artistic merit...
Rosenthal last week said the allegations were without merit. He said the UHS safety committee had reviewed the complaints and found them groundless...
However, a failure of the bill in Texas should not reflect poorly on the gun law's viability or merit. Texas politics are unique, but the fact that 34 states currently have "right to carry" laws on the books offers a compelling reason to consider it carefully. The law also enjoys bipartisan support across socioeconomic lines; it should not be dismissed lightly as a ridiculous ploy of the National Rifle Association...
...defacement of one spiffy Barcelona metro stop declares, "!NAZIS NO!" In the United States we face racial and ethnic problems of our own, but most Americans, I think, avoid responding to far-right sentiment not because they agree with it but because they consider it simply too marginal to merit any attention. Either politically mainstream Spaniards like to vandalize subways, or the sentiment they observe seems to them too virulent to be deemed marginal...
Under President James B. Conant, Lowell's successor, efforts were made to extend the principle of selection by merit. The College sought talent nationwide through its admissions program, admitting on merit, regardless of financial need. My mentor, John Usher Munro, Dean of Harvard College (who resigned in the late 1960s to teach in a Black college in Alabama), told me about the early days of national recruiting. He and others would take the trains in Chicago and elsewhere, visiting schools and homes to identify talented students and to persuade parents, most of whom had never attended college, to let their...