Word: meritable
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Over the course of his lifetime, Streilein was also the recipient of many awards, including the MERIT grant from the National Eye Institute. Aside from his research, Streilein also was a beloved professor and adviser...
...House voted 276-139 this month to approve a bill exempting the fast food industry from obesity lawsuits. While these lawsuits may seem silly to some lawmakers, their merit should be decided in a court of law, not in the court of public opinion...
...food industry and leaving it at that, the real solution to frivolous lawsuits is not the immunization of entire industries—a precedent that could restrict Americans’ ability to punish corporate wrongdoing. Baseless lawsuits should be promptly dismissed; if any of these lawsuits are indeed without merit, then the courts will rule that way. The House should keep its hands out of a private citizen’s right to confront corporations in court...
...lead in the polls. On Sunday they were ousted by incoming Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Socialist party. Conservative pundits, like New York Times columnist David Brooks, have been quick to denounce the Spaniards for appeasing Al Qaeda. Their arguments are not without merit, but they are overly crude and mistakenly conflate the fight against Islamic terrorism with the war against Iraq...
Like a nervous married couple who refuse to try for another baby after their first miscarriage, band leaders Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill decided to go it without a bass player and create an experimental record that wears its “challenging” nature like a merit badge. It’s supposed to be a defiant sendoff, I think, to the fans who liked their good music, and a snide mealy-mouthed pout of “we don’t need no dang bass player!” that sounds more like...