Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frosh Seth K. Bechis blew my mind (News, April 19). Bechis thinks himself so notable that others need to read his story for inspiration If it was necessary for Bechis to submit a three-page press release about himself to Boston newspapers, then apparently his achievements did not merit press attention on their own standing...
...frosh Seth K. Bechis blew my mind (News, April 19). Bechis thinks himself so notable that others need to read his story for inspiration If it was necessary for Bechis to submit a three-page press release about himself to Boston newspapers, then apparently his achievements did not merit press attention on their own standing...
...only point with merit, Paul claimed, was the "$5 damper on fun," as he eloquently phrased it. Like a crusty manager giving the nod to a rookie in the fourth inning of a split-squad spring-training game, he turned to me with a $5 bill and a wink of the eye, he growled, "Get out there, T.J., and show 'em how they're wrong...
...disgraced as a rightist, thrown out of the Communist Party and spent some years in the northeast tending livestock until Deng Xiaoping began looking for people to help carry out his economic reforms. Zhu was rehabilitated in 1978, and rose as an economic planner, largely on his own merit, since he had no base of support in the army, party or bureaucracy. "Everyone knew Zhu, not just for being efficient and honest, but primarily because of his rightist background," says Zhu Xingqing (no relation), a journalist in Shanghai in the 1980s when Zhu was mayor...
...itself as loftier than society, and it treats those who have infringed upon its own rules (think Shoeless Joe) more harshly than those who have trespassed against the society that supposedly lies behind the game. Talk all you want about his gambling problems, but I won't see the merit of Rose's exile until Wil Cordero also gets the boot...