Word: meritable
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...disqualified from submitting or voting on money-spending plans that primarily affect their home districts. Huge amounts of money could be saved by eliminating the many wasteful projects that are put forth solely to enhance a lawmaker's image at home. Issues could then be settled on their merit rather than for re-election purposes. Neal Rohrer Kingsburg, Calif...
Congratulations on your selection of Deng Xiaoping as Man of the Year. While the choice of Mikhail Gorbachev would have had obvious merit, your arguments for deciding to pick Deng were too persuasive to ignore. Timothy A. VanDerbosch Garrett...
There is an adage that people get the kind of government they deserve. My question: What crimes did America commit over the past 200 years to merit being shackled today with a travesty like influence peddlers [NATION, March 3]? Marshall S. Berdan Washington...
...Force has admitted the merit of some of the charges. This month the academy head, Lieut. General John Rosa Jr., who attempted some corrections a year ago, publicly conceded, "I have problems in my cadet wing, I have issues in my staff, and I have issues in my faculty." It might take six years, he said, to change the culture. Yet other allegations are contested, and a congressional fracas over the issue suggests the nation's faith-tinted "culture wars," which have until now spared the armed services, may impact actual warriors...
...people on both sides of the constitutional debate should cite the French Revolution to bolster their case." You should have mentioned a key worry of many French citizens: the "democratic deficit," or the lack of democratic legitimacy of nonelected E.U. bodies, some of which have more authority than they merit. Françoise Blin Vers sur Selle, France The critical issues at stake during the debate on the E.U. constitution included increased unemployment, the loss of social advantages, offshore industries, cheap imports from countries with low labor costs and increased immigration. It was rare, however, that one heard...