Word: meritable
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...opening for a publicist. The September convention of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association turned into a recruitment center for major national media seeking to diversify newsrooms. Insiders say the National Book Awards and even the Pulitzer Prizes have at times bowed to political correctness rather than pure merit, seeking to honor blacks, Hispanics and women...
...Except for the lowliest jobs, Wall Street, insurance and banking were also closed to those of Mediterranean or Slavic descent. A handful of legal and financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...
...scientific and religious communities have overwhelmingly rejected charges of brainwashing as lacking merit. In a brief filed with the California Court of Appeals in 1987 (Molko v. HSA-UWC), both the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association characterized the allegation of brainwashing by the Unification Church as "simply a negative value judgment in scientific garb...
...Shining Path insurgency is badly crippled. But to Peruvian officials, Sendero Luminoso remains a frightening specter. Norwegian-born filmmaker Marianne Eyde discovered that after she completed a film about Sendero in September 1992. For a year, the national film board nervously weighed the $150,000 movie's "artistic merit," and Eyde voluntarily screened You Only Live Once (La Vida Es Una Sola) for Peru's top military officers so they could see it was not pro-Sendero. Retired General Sinesio Jarama liked it, he told Eyde, but cautioned, "You're going to have problems because the film makes you think...
...polishes each sentence so it shines in such a way that you say, 'Yes! That's what I meant to say,' " says Janice Simpson, our New York bureau chief.) Our art critics think of Chris as a paradigm of catholic sensibilities to whom no work of merit, from this century or any other, is unfamiliar. ("Scrupulous. Sympathetic. Measured," says Robert Hughes, whom Porterfield persuaded to come to TIME in 1970 over lunch at a London bistro called the Gay Hussar.) And our entire staff recognizes in Porterfield a journalist who embodies the sort of grace, civility and honesty that...