Word: meritable
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Berkowitz claims that Harvard breached its contract with him by failing to follow its own guidelines for hearing employee complaints. A Faculty committee dismissed his grievance as "clearly without merit" without sending it on to an ad-hoc panel for consideration...
...Judge Raymond J. Brassard, who had denied Harvard's first motion to dismiss the case prior to the Brandeis decision, found that Berkowitz's case still had merit. He made the ruling in light of an amended complaint Berkowitz submitted, detailing the ways in which he believes Harvard violated its rules...
...These are specific facts which, if true, suggest that Berkowitz's grievance raised non-frivolous issues, supporting the alleged legal conclusion that the Docket Committee misapplied the 'clearly without merit' standard in dismissing his grievance," Brassard wrote in the decision...
...university grants a candidate "extra points" for a variety of reasons, including a high-quality essay, athletic participation, geographic location and parental alum status. These reasons can be divided into two categories--merit and non-merit. Clearly, a strong essay or a commitment to athletics is deserving of merit, whereas a person's skin color, residence or parents are hardly indicative of achievement. In lumping these two separate and distinct categories together, the University of Michigan heads down the wrong path...
...MIGHT NOT Art films today are often slow films, and if Yi Yi's pulse were any slower it would merit not a review but an autopsy. At 2 hr. 53 min., it contains many scenes of silent staring into the middle distance--human disasters made statuesque and static...