Word: meritable
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This year in the council, we've passed a bill for gay rights, a bill for free speech and a number of other politically oriented pieces of legislation. Additionally, we may pass bills endorsing higher minimum wages across the country or working rights for Saipanese workers-bills that have merit in promoting freedom and equality and are important in our lives as Americans-yet little if anything would change in our daily lives on campus...
...setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should be standardized across each course, by a consensus of the teaching fellows and the course's professor...
...issue of overcrowding was important enoughto merit a guest appearance by Dean of the FacultyJeremy R. Knowles at the monthly Council ofMasters meeting that took place March 10. But theunited front the Masters presented was still notenough to convince Knowles as to the source of theovercrowding issue...
...Mark Singer, who depended on Loehmann's for 80% of his business, into giving Friedman's wife Debbie a high-level job. Within a year, she left the firm, allegedly with clothing patterns and manufacturing processes, and started her own competing outfit. (Loehmann's says the suit has no merit.) It didn't take long, Singer argues, for Forty Three Apparel to lose its Loehmann's business to Debbie Friedman and sink into bankruptcy...
...According to the University's "Guidelines for the Resolution of Faculty Grievances," unless the Docket Committee finds the grievance to be "clearly without merit," Berkowitz's appeal must be passed on to an ad hoc committee, which would be responsible for investigating and resolving the complaint...