Word: meritable
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...choice does not come down to mere merit - politics, geography and gender will also play a part. E.U. leaders will want to make sure that the three posts of E.U. president, foreign policy chief and European Commission president are split between candidates from the centre-left and centre-right parties, big and small member states, northern and southern Europe, and, if possible, include a woman. (Former Irish President Mary Robinson has emerged as a potential E.U. president candidate.) (See TIME's photos: "New Hope For Belfast...
...H1N1 is a new virus whose timing, duration, and severity are still uncertain. Moreover, the treatment of this disease is difficult, especially in countries like Ukraine whose medical infrastructure does not equal that of other Western countries. The severity of the disease in Ukraine, however, does not seem to merit the drastic steps the government has taken. Although national health officials have cited 33 flu deaths in support of the measure, they have not definitively specified how many of these deaths were a result of swine flu and how many were a result of other viruses. Additionally, to put this...
...books of the Adiga-Desai stamp. (A strain of nationalism too is on display: Books by South Asian authors on non-South Asian topics, or non-South Asians on South Asia, find no place on the latter shelf.) A book that “matters” enough to merit national pride often connotes a thick tome of realism—one that attempts to cram between its two covers either all the dramas of family life or an entire sordid cityscape.In practice, this drive toward realism prompts writers to turn to a set of stock cultural representations closely linked...
...Research Building at Harvard Medical School has been named one of the recipients of the annual Merit Award for Design Excellence from the New England Chapter of the American Institute of Architects...
Other recipients of this year’s Merit Award include the Integrated Sciences Building at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Pierce Hall at Kenyon College in Ohio, and the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass...