Word: meritably
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...identify any "urgent and important" letters they might send, he asked them to draw a red line under the postage stamp. When they used it to mark the letter in which they broke the news of his father's suicide, Ted wrote back complaining that the message didn't merit a red line. From that point he retreated even more firmly into the Montana woods, his books and himself...
Brotman said she chose to support Hyman and Rawlins because they "bring up a lot of the issues that I've had and I think that their efforts have a lot of merit...
Such quasi-scholarships would contradict standard Ivy League policy, which prohibits so-called "merit" scholarships in favor of need-based financial...
...diversity. They may have hoped that race would cause no more trouble than geography, that finding able blacks would be as easy, or as hard, as finding able Californians. The risk was that nothing untoward would emerge, no awkward fact calling into question the association of diversity and merit. Unfortunately, once race is on the list of things to look for, it is hard to take it off unobtrusively...
...quotas. That term sets up a moral expectation that each group is entitled to its proportionate share of the best positions of every kind. Perhaps the expectation will not be made specific or will not be strictly enforced, but it will exert constant pressure against an unbiased concern for merit. Indeed, that pressure is just what proponents of affirmative action say they want to maintain. They do not want quotas, but they want the disposition to quotas that makes the formal requirement unnecessary--and keeps it concealed. Representation has to do with political power, not with academic excellence...