Word: meritable
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...high school, Peter—class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His speech is self-effacing and marked with anger directed toward his more successful peers. “Around all these ambitious people, you need to have a job or you’re considered worthless,” he says as he places his soup firmly back on the table...
Goonan touches on an important point: rejection is not strictly based on merit. It is also based on fit. For Peter and others, years of accumulated success have led them to mindlessly judge themselves based on measures respected within the academy—admissions, job offers and grades. But rejection at Harvard often extends beyond these matters and into areas where assessing merit is more difficult...
...major employer would look at this and say there seems to be some merit in unifying all those forces,” said LaBua in June. “We are in the process of looking to unify the existing security guard force...
...China's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan are almost entirely without merit by any reasonable historical, political or moral standard. Nor is there anything surprising about the people of Taiwan's desire to run their own affairs. Only their freedom to speak their minds is new. Eric Wedemeyer Tokyo...
...York, Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and Houston--matched up perfectly with AIR's list of most at-risk cities. Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York, which received 25% of the new grant, says, "I was thinking, finally it seems we have a program based on merit, and clearly not based on politics--because a lot of these cities are not exactly Republican bastions...