Word: meritable
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...matter of principle, the government should not be making normative value judgments about the relative merit of specific fields of study. To declare some skills more important than others and steer the population accordingly threatens the right of American citizens to choose their majors and occupations. At the center of a democratic government is the notion of liberty and choice— the liberty to say what one wishes, to believe what one wishes, to profess what one wishes—all without fear of governmental reproach. In that vein, this legislation should not have the power to effectively make...
...mania has also spread to smaller companies. Terrie Lloyd, an M&A consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon in Japan...
...DISCOUNT EDUCATION Smaller private colleges seeking to lure students from the Ivies are increasingly turning to aid based on academic achievement rather than economic need. Merit scholarships grew from $1.2 billion in 1994 to $7.3 billion...
...considers even slightly hostile. Only recently, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe was detained for trespassing in a public park on charges that he was trying to overthrow the Mugabe regime. This incident was an isolated one. It in no way reflects the general condition of all nations that merit a medium-level warning from the State Department. If anything, the incident is an outlier that illustrates the caution that students must be prepared to take when traveling abroad to certain places. Police states like Zimbabwe—with unpredictable laws and where tactics like arrest may be veiled attempts...
...disputed articles about the nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, admits that the book requires readers to make a "leap of faith" and accept the credibility of his sources. But the number of intelligence officials willing to risk their careers and come forward convinced Risen that their critiques have merit. "I got to these people at a good time," he says. "The frustration over the way things have been going in the Bush Administration had built up within the government. There were a lot of people who were increasingly uncomfortable with what was going...