Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PROBLEM IN OUR PSEUDODEMOCRACIES is lack of access to those making decisions on our behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics in the democratic system, which bestows power, prestige...
David M. Powers Briarcliff Manor, New York A problem in our pseudo democracies is lack of access to those making decisions on our behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics...
...staff supports Barbra Streisand's defense of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Not only is goverment funding for the arts a waste of taxpayer money; it is potentially dangerous to artistic freedom to have the government making decisions about what constitutes artistic merit. We no longer live in Renaissance Florence. The government ought to have no role in this area...
...smart feature has already gained widespread acceptance: antilock brakes. And though there is no statistical evidence that cars with these brakes have fewer accidents, many insurance companies seem convinced of their merit; they offer discounts on premiums for vehicles equipped with antilock brakes...
...admit that the excitement of having a "contending team" in the Year of the Scab might merit more than just an asterisk in the annals of baseball history, and that therefore some, if not most, of the excitement, of the season will disappear...