Word: meritable
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...public high schools, for example, one's private beliefs and practices can have virtually no bearing on their school life. While enough students were Jewish at my pubic high school to merit school closing on Yom Kippur, whatever other people from school were doing on that day off was completely irrelevant to me. I would just come home from school on the afternoon of Kol Nidre, and at my home and synagogue--the only places I went that day--it was the Day of Atonement for everyone...
...just because these works were completed by an extraordinarily young artist does not automatically make them valuable masterpieces which stand on their own. If anything we might say that their art historical value depends not on their individual merit, but largely on the fact that they were created by one of the artists who later invented cubism. Had Picasso died in 1906, the date of the exhibition's last painting, we might question whether these same works would be hanging in the MFA today...
...more pressing questions to discuss than whether or not Clinton and Vice President Al Gore '69 solicited potential donors when they had them over for petit fours, perhaps I could understand our national fixation. But, fortunately or not, there are serious things going on at home and abroad that merit national observation--and demand presidential focus...
...There are educational delays for doctors and lawyers, but other than that they're pretty hard to do," Rooney said. Even in medicine and law, he says, the 150 annual educational delays granted are parceled out among 4,000 Army cadets nationally based on an "order of merit" list...
This change, regardless of its merit, was instituted in an unfair and deceitful way. By not sending seniors and other concentrators an official announcement and especially by making the change retroactive, the Economics Department acted irresponsibly toward its concentrators...