Word: meritable
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...councillors declared unconditional support for either proposal at the meeting, but several councillors said this week they think the neighborhood’s petition has merit because it represents the people...
...Governor of Texas, his life was almost empty of accomplishments. Yet bloodlines and connections had put him into Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School, and even finally provided him with a fortune after years of business disappointments. Intelligence, hard work and the other qualities associated with the concept of merit had almost nothing to do with Bush's life and success up to that point. And yet seven years later he was President...
...Grammy of Special Merit was awarded to the Choir Academy in 2000 for its “outstanding commitment to music education...
...believed that their moving in would detract from the social value, we would immediately denounce such a racially motivated policy. Why then should the response be so different when the argument is made in the reverse: that a black person—any black person, regardless of merit or capacity—is an organizational asset...
...that Hispanics, Asians, gays and foreigners need their own senate seat is also a paternalist slap in the face to those students; it assumes that they need special treatment in order to achieve. Can’t a gay man run on his own merit? Or a Hispanic woman? Of course. For the most part, preferential diversity seats aside, Amherst is a fair place. The Amherst student government is composed of individuals who ran for election and were voted into office on their own individual merit. The student senate may think that it is leveling some phantasmal playing field...