Word: merit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough tuition yearly to merit some recourse with the University beyond just griping in the Undergraduate Council and staging some protests. Students shouldn't just have to accept a situation as beyond their control just because Harvard doesn't want to give them any power...
Thernstrom, a member of the conservative National Association of Scholars, was critical of policies that value diversity over merit as an admission standard. Thernstrom said if diversity were the highest goal, it would mean that fewer Asian and Jewish students would be admitted...
...despite this fiscal insignificance and the innocuous, even noble, nature of almost everything it underwrites, the NEA has become one of the most controversial agencies of government. A target for President Reagan on the theory that merit ought to be defined by the populist mechanism of the box office, it spent the past decade spiraling downward from dreams of expansion to danger of demise. Artists and administrators who benefit from the NEA's money and imprimatur concede they have blown the political debate. They allowed the right wing to misrepresent culture as a hotbed of the unpatriotic, the irreligious...
Although cuts like "The Concept" and MetalBaby may merit Rolling Stone's negativereview, songs like "Guiding Star" and What YouDo To Me certainly make Band- Howie Axelrod
...career begins in the open class. Thecat receives one point for each cat it defeats ina show; 100 points make it a champion. Championscompete against each other and reach grandchampion status with 200 victories. The mostcoveted honor of all is the Distinguished Merit,bestowed upon that queen who bears five grandchampions and the stud who sires...