Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish that symbols weren't necessary. I wish that processes and procedures were always fair and rewarding of merit," she says...
...culture were grateful that the Air Force wouldn't bend the rules for someone entrusted with a plane carrying 70,000 lbs. of nuclear bombs. Everyone can identify because up close, no one involved--not Flinn, her lover, the Air Force, her unusual array of supporters--is without some merit or without some blame. And so last week it made sense to both sides to just call the whole thing...
...least a generation, we have been debating how to raise the quality of education. More money. More equitable funding of schools. More computers. More graduation requirements. More choice. All these ideas have merit and are being tried. Yet policymakers have been reluctant to try the one idea that may make the most sense: more time in school...
...international conspiracy. To gather evidence, Jones sent investigators to the Middle East and Asia. Now, these sources say, Matsch may decide not to permit the defense to call witnesses who would testify about the alleged plot. Apparently Jones has not convinced Matsch that his theory is plausible enough to merit consideration by the jury. The government is paying for McVeigh's defense, and with the cost of these investigations, which were approved by Matsch, added to expenses and lawyers' fees (at a maximum of $125 an hour), Jones will have spent nearly $10 million by the end of the trial...
...American art, social memory can surface in odd, oblique ways. There is no big commemorative painting--or none of any merit--that shows a battle from the worst trauma in the country's history, the Civil War. In fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war and has only one figure in it. It is The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In an earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This...