Word: meritable
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...doing a little Rush research, I decided to buy his book, The Way Things Ought to Be. In a cursory perusal—and I stress “cursory” because, though there may be some merit in reading such literary wit as “The poor in this country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig and her nipples,” I was unable to find it—I happened upon “Limbaugh’s Lexicon,” where he unsuccessfully attempts a humorous spin of his hateful dogma...
...business setting rather than exclusively in government. What's more, Public Service Minister Jean-Paul Delevoye has proposed measures to make it easier for the state to hire bureaucrats from the private sector. Next year, he announced, the government will begin a plan to pay bureaucrats partly on merit rather than seniority alone. Getting there will require intensive discussions with unions entrenched in the French public service - and opposed to change...
...Staff’s condemnation of Israel’s recent missile strike against an alleged terrorist camp in Syria is egregiously oversimplified (Editorial, “Nations Are Not Terrorists,” Oct. 15). While arguing with merit against the logic of Israel’s attack, The Staff’s characterization of the conflict between Israel and Syria is woefully lacking in basic history...
...time. A staggering work of emotional profundity with the occasional stripper-on-stripper dance-off, Showgirls would no doubt receive an A rating according to the Ebert system. But certain faceless detractors might argue that the film does not exhibit an ounce of artistic merit and therefore deserves an NC-17. Such responsibility would only be giving the Rating Board another system of control...
When he established the concentration system, then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, famously said, “Every educated man should know a little of everything and everything about something.” In measuring multiplicities of merit, and balancing the often-conflicting aims of representativeness, diversity, excellence, and the liberal arts, Byerly Hall tries to follow a similar principle: be uniquely excellent in something, and capable of anything. Such students are rare. But when you have the best-qualified applicant pool in the country, 20,000 deep, you take less than...