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Nguyen agreed. "Merit means a lot more than GPAand tests--it's also the experience you bring," hesaid...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Affirmative Action Day Wins Student Support | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...says she suffered for refusing Clinton--failing to receive promotions and raises, a demotion while on maternity leave--she was unfamiliar with her own employment record at her deposition. And that record doesn't support her claim. She received, according to Bennett's statement of her job history, every merit and cost of living raise she was eligible for, and left her state job of her own volition. She was reassigned after a maternity leave but to a similar data-entry job at the same rate of pay. Jones' team has not effectively disputed this. She alleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Kiss But Don't Tell | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

WILL WINDamon (who will win one for his screenplay) and Hoffman (who already has two, doggonit), are easy to strike. I'm not convinced Peter Fonda's career ever impressed anyone enough to merit a "comeback" paean, so look for Robert Duvall to eke out a victory over SAG and Globe winner Nicholson, Duvall is much-admired and under-Oscared, and he wrote, directed, financed and starred in his picture...take that, Matt Damon...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: OSCAR PICKS 1998 | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...They also oppose things like merit pay because they are the stout, egalitarian defenders of mediocrity," Wilson said...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pete Wilson Advocates Education Reform for California | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

...cases of Nykesha Sales, Mo Vaughn and Bill Clinton of course merit different interpretations of "no harm, no foul." In the instance of Sales' new record, her coach may have been right that no harm was done and a greater good accomplished. The jury (figuratively for Vaughn and literally for the President) is still out on the other two. I don't know what the antithetical proverb to "no harm, no foul" is, or even whether one exists. In these cases, maybe the closest we can come is "I don't know whether to laugh or cry at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Proverb, Lots To Say | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

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