Word: meritable
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...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...
...Bryce Dallas Howard had to put up with Von Trier's Svengalise personality; that Taiwanese beauty Hsu Chi (aka Shu Qi) was quite decorative watching guys shoot pool in Three Times; and that Alison Lohmann carried the story, while sinking the plausibility, of Where the Truth Lies. These performances merit sympathy at best, not a commendation...
...were true that the reform would force sophomores to seek election to less glamorous committees, the end result would still benefit the student body. Those sophomores who were seriously dedicated to the UC and its mission would still run and serve on other committees, gaining experience and demonstrating their merit to their electorates. Either way, the student body would get more excited UC reps than it enjoys...
This hypocrisy directly contradicts the plain text of the policy. So much for equal opportunity on the basis of merit without regard to race...