Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's definitely a division in the Asian-American community," says Quach, who opposed Prop. 209. "In San Francisco, in a good amount of the Asian-American community, people do believe that a merit-based system is more worthwhile. The 40 percent who voted for Proposition 209 want to see things decided on merit...
Ping Tjin Thum, a freshman from Singapore, proved his merit by winning the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:53 and also swimming on the winning 400 medley relay with sophomores James Zenyuh and Alex Kurmakov and senior Scott Campea. Zenyuh also placed second in the 200 backstroke, and Kurmakov won the 100 free with a time...
...plan also would earmark several thousand dollars in "merit funds" for student groups that the finance committee chooses...
Nelson says a separate merit fund "would imply the rest of the grants process should not be merit-based...
When Richard Brooks' In Cold Blood, the film based on Truman Capote's celebrated nonfiction novel, was released in 1967, a number of critics complained that it lacked a point of view. Unable to capture the real merit of the book--Capote's masterly accretion of detail in telling the true story of a prosperous Kansas farm family's gruesome murder--the film meanders about, touching on unoriginal themes: that men can kill with no good reason, that boys brutalized will grow up to brutalize, that the pure of heart often die in vain...