Word: meritable
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...disappointed that the Attorney General of the State of New York has filed this hasty and ill-conceived civil lawsuit, against which we intend to defend vigorously," said Merkin's lawyer, Andrew Levander, in response to the charges. "The evidence shows that this lawsuit is without merit. Contrary to the Attorney General's allegation, investors in the Ascot Funds were well aware that the money was being invested with Madoff...
...obviously sees little merit in that distinction, and neither do some members of the younger generation of Pakistani Taliban leaders, such as Baitullah Mehsud, a target of U.S. drone strikes who claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly attack on a Lahore police academy, saying it was an act of revenge for Pakistan's complicity in the U.S. campaign. But even the uptick of Taliban violence inside Pakistan won't necessarily spur the country's military establishment to act against Taliban forces that are using Pakistani territory as a base from which to fight NATO in Afghanistan...
...explain this bizarre reasoning, then? The explanation is largely political. Teachers’ unions stick to seniority-based layoff policies because they prioritize job protection, even above student welfare. Teachers should be given the privilege of staying power, however, due to merit, not merely the length of time worked. School districts should certainly make every effort to retain good teachers that have worked for many years, but, if cuts need to be made, they should focus on letting go ineffective teachers instead of simply targeting new ones. If layoffs must be made, they should be done so based...
...Despite O’Connor’s setback, Weiss put the difficult competition in perspective, insisting that his grappler’s effort was not without merit...
...that of “South China Moon” and, once again, represents the genre at its worst. An isolated instance of clever wordplay does not an Elvis Costello make. That is not to say that “Grr…” is uniformly without merit. There are moments, few as they are in this album, where Bishop Allen does move beyond the formula. The band is most potent on the four-song stretch from “Dirt on Your Shoes” to “True and False...