Word: meritably
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...United States Supreme Court, only to be denied the object of a life's work and thought--and, some would say, politicking. But if the predicament Judge Bork found himself in when he learned the Senate would not assent to his nomination deserves our understanding, it does not merit our sympathy...
Within months after Bork had acquired a $400,000-a-year partnership with his old Chicago firm and a $500,000 house, Attorney General William French Smith called offering Bork a spot on the D.C. Court of Appeals. The unspoken understanding was that a good performance would merit Bork top consideration for any Supreme Court vacancy...
...questions their credentials and the district's need for teachers of "distinguished merit." But administrators could not find Americans capable of teaching elementary school in French. Says Personnel Officer Bonnie Sims: "We searched the entire U.S. for qualified elementary teachers. It was necessary to go outside." Kansas City is appealing the decision...
...role in the party's nominating process; some 475 of 3,933 voting delegates to the 1984 Democratic Convention were members of the National Education Association or American Federation of Teachers. Both groups have been skeptical of such ideas for improving the quality of education as competency tests and merit pay for teachers unless teachers themselves exercise considerable control over whatever plans are adopted. Democrats tread cautiously in this area; they cannot afford either to antagonize the unions or to expose themselves to the charges of catering to special interests that were hurled with such devastating effect at Walter Mondale...
When the Democrats were asked in the North Carolina debate what differences they had with the N.E.A., only Jesse Jackson gave the union a ringing endorsement. Most of the others favored some form of "accountability" for teachers, and some went further, backing the principle of merit pay. Said former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt: "We need the guts and creativity to pay the best teachers more." But all seven were vehement in defending the N.E.A. against the harsh attacks of Education Secretary Bennett, who shortly before the forum called the union the "most misnamed organization in America." Senator Albert Gore promised...