Word: meritable
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...driving businessman so used to winning and so sure of his judgment that he didn't notice how close his toes had got to the line? Spitzer has been criticized in the business community for overzealousness, and last week brought the first hard evidence that the criticism may have merit: a former Bank of America broker was acquitted in a courtroom test of Spitzer's crusade against the financial industry. That can't help pleasing Greenberg's lawyers. Still, Greenberg's hardheadedness may have invited some of the scrutiny he's under. In the end, his legal and professional predicament...
...March panel, several female professors sharply criticized Summers’ arguments, weighing the merit of claims of social prejudices and biases that may impede women from reaching many tenured positions in top universities over those of innate gender differences in the sciences...
...search process continues to be very rigorous…I think the possibility that standards will suddenly be lowered is very slight,” Ryan writes in an e-mail, addressing possible concerns that special attention to gender diversity would lower standards of merit and scholarship in tenure searches...
...statement, the DFCI said that Shearer’s claims are “without merit...
...uses his international relations class to shake his cadets out of any comfortable misconceptions about the U.S. Army and how it's viewed abroad. Conventional wisdom says that American teenagers are unshakably obsessed with instant celebrity, pimped rides and video games. But West Point kids-valedictorians, football captains, National Merit Scholars-defy those stereotypes. They choose instead four years of daily room inspections, 6am breakfast formations, with a coda of near-certain deployment into a combat zone. All they get in exchange are assurances that their country needs them, that they are filling a timeless and revered role. June Harting...