Word: meritable
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This group defends its choices on a variety of non-monetary grounds. They cite a challenging work environment, bright peers, the opportunity for advancement based on merit and a steep learning curve. They complain that the public sector is often the opposite: slow, inefficient and full of people who are unambitious and overly bureaucratic. They see career options like teaching and non-profit work as insufficiently influential and somehow less "professional...
...some cases, interviews may even be scheduled with no prior application, Moss said. These interviews are first-come, first-serve and are not awarded on merit...
...pedanticallyexplain the morality of the situation and thendrops him. But the book survives. It remains amoving portrait of the confusion and surreality ofwartime and of a little boy lost. If, ultimately,it is more interesting as an artifact of Calvino'syouth, that does not detract from its merit as anovel...
Harvard prides itself on producing "tomorrow's leaders;" I am one of those leaders, a student of exceptional merit and promise. I don't bother to look back and evaluate. It doesn't matter if I lied about missing section three months ago, or if I swear too much, or if I've been too interested in the Bill and Monica scandal. I am too important to the future of our world to die. What is so important about repentance of the past when I am engaged in so many things to make the future better...
Supporting the idea of merit even if it resulted in "an unfortunate and embarrassing situation," D'Souza gave the example of the NBA as a non-controversial organization based on merit which still "does not look like America...