Word: meritable
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This is a valid concern, but one that is largely without merit in this instance. In regards to fears that acceptance of the wind energy fee will establish a dangerous trend towards including items based on whatever story a flurry of ad campaigns can sell to the undergraduate body, the experience of the EAC serves as a counterexample in point. If the wind energy fee appears on the termbill next fall, it will have survived heated debate in the Undergraduate Council, a popular referendum and the review of the Faculty Council. With so many (and such diverse) checks...
...nearly all cases, just a few landowners and, more importantly, the town’s bottom line will benefit, negating valid objections from most others. And wind developers know that while flying on green coattails, they can’t easily be turned away, despite the increasingly dubious merit of their proposals...
...major employer would look at this and say there seems to be some merit in unifying all those forces,” LaBua said in June 2003. “We are in the process of looking to unify the existing security guard force...
Gulay’s foolhardy equation of U.S. troops in Iraq to the genocidal janjaweed in Darfur "(Comment, Iraq: Our Very Own Dafur [sic],” Nov. 29) is so thoroughly lacking in credibility that it would normally not merit a response, but his argument is so offensive to the hundreds of thousands of slaughtered, raped, starved, burned or otherwise annihilated victims of the horrific Sudanese genocide that it cannot be excused, even by his obvious ignorance of the situation...
...stood in the Cage, most of whom seemed to be friends of the RPL. The number of audience members had hardly fluctuated throughout the night. While the show was not particularly ground-breaking in any way, there was a certain degree of musicality in the performances that should theoretically merit greater interest. Despite the strange moments of Thursday night, the lengthy set-up times and the ungodly heat of the Cage, the Collective still managed to present relatively good music for free. With a few slight logistical refinements, this performace space might attract a larger gathering of fans...