Word: meritable
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Although the scientific merit of the Raelians’ work is still very dubious, the attention surrounding their claims may have an impact on the current debates over stem cell research...
...believed that their moving in would detract from the social value, we would immediately denounce such a racially motivated policy. Why then should the response be so different when the argument is made in the reverse: that a black person—any black person, regardless of merit or capacity—is an organizational asset...
...that Hispanics, Asians, gays and foreigners need their own senate seat is also a paternalist slap in the face to those students; it assumes that they need special treatment in order to achieve. Can’t a gay man run on his own merit? Or a Hispanic woman? Of course. For the most part, preferential diversity seats aside, Amherst is a fair place. The Amherst student government is composed of individuals who ran for election and were voted into office on their own individual merit. The student senate may think that it is leveling some phantasmal playing field...
...laying off thousands of workers and cleaned up the balance sheet by writing off a slew of bad loans. Still, his brief tenure hardly distinguished him as a trailblazing reformer destined to head the CSRC. His ex-colleague says, "It was a political appointment, and not necessarily based on merit...
...advisor to Harvard’s president in the 1930s, he urged the University to adopt the SAT as its standard for judging applicants more on their merit and less on their family connections...