Word: meritable
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...weapons in this war are called "merit-based aid" and "preferential packages." The latest skirmish began in February, when Princeton University, whose $8.4 billion endowment is the largest per student of any U.S. college, announced that it would no longer require its scholarship recipients to take out loans as part of aid packages, replacing them with outright grants. This change will save individual students tens of thousands of dollars and make Princeton more attractive than some equally prestigious campuses--unless they match the offer. Some are doing just that...
...Most colleges play the merit-scholarship game with stealth. Many dodge the discount label by proffering merit scholarships that are endowed by private donors and have set qualifications: Emory offers the Scholars Program; Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., has its Honorary Scholars program. The private University of Rochester offers any New York State resident a $5,000 tuition break--one that just happens to make Rochester financially competitive with the better of the campuses of the State University of New York, to which it often loses applicants...
While the extra federal funds will provide a $600 addition to the non-merit-based Pell Grants, increasing the maximum amount of federal aid to $4,350, the federal government's commitment to reducing the cost of higher education will hardly be felt by students receiving Harvard financial aid packages...
McCain and Feingold thought they had a good idea who their enemies were. McConnell never pretended to see the smallest merit in anything they proposed. To him the debate is a basic free-speech issue: if people want to spend their money supporting candidates or making TV ads about a candidate's environmental record, that is their prerogative. But as the week began, it was not McConnell who posed the greatest threat. It was, of all people, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, the most earnest, make-the-world-a-better-place Senator...
Happily, Blow (based on Bruce Porter’s book of the same name) has enough merit to avoid easy aphorisms. The title refers to cocaine, but Blow isn’t intended to be a drug movie in the sense that Traffic or Trainspotting are drug movies. It assumes its viewers already know the history of coke and how the drug took Studio 54 and Wall Street by storm, and thus steers away from dealing with the well-documented social effects of cocaine. Instead, the film is a biography of an extraordinary life, that of George Jung, the baby...