Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This group defends its choices on a variety of non-monetary grounds. They cite a challenging work environment, bright peers, the opportunity for advancement based on merit and a steep learning curve. They complain that the public sector is often the opposite: slow, inefficient and full of people who are unambitious and overly bureaucratic. They see career options like teaching and non-profit work as insufficiently influential and somehow less "professional...
...some cases, interviews may even be scheduled with no prior application, Moss said. These interviews are first-come, first-serve and are not awarded on merit...
Harvard prides itself on producing "tomorrow's leaders;" I am one of those leaders, a student of exceptional merit and promise. I don't bother to look back and evaluate. It doesn't matter if I lied about missing section three months ago, or if I swear too much, or if I've been too interested in the Bill and Monica scandal. I am too important to the future of our world to die. What is so important about repentance of the past when I am engaged in so many things to make the future better...
Citing differences in test scores between blacks and whites from similar backgrounds--even on exams which he believed to be unbiased--D'Souza argued that "it is not discrimination but merit which is producing inequality [in higher education...
Supporting the idea of merit even if it resulted in "an unfortunate and embarrassing situation," D'Souza gave the example of the NBA as a non-controversial organization based on merit which still "does not look like America...