Word: meritably
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...chairs Common Cause-a non-partisan lobby concerned with honesty and accountability in government institutions-said that "PACs have made elections more and more a competition of money rather than of the ideas, character, and merit of the candidates...
Harvard argued that the 93-year old, Queen Anne style building did not merit preservation as an historically significant property. In addition. Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice president for community affairs, said it would not be cost effective to renovate the units in their current architectural style...
...audience for the festival. Yet it has also imposed the unrealistically high expectation that every play produced there must have a floodlit afterlife. If there were no surefire contenders for SRO signs among this year's offerings, that should count for less than the fact that most showed some merit and four glowed with intelligence and passion...
When Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer resigned last year amid Securities and Exchange Commission allegations of illegal insider stock trading, he contended that the charges were "entirely without merit" and vowed to fight. Last week Thayer threw in the towel. He and an associate, former Dallas Stockbroker Billy Bob Harris, pleaded guilty in federal district court in Washington to obstructing justice by giving false testimony during an SEC investigation of his dealings...
...with so many of the President's sweeping pronouncements, his comparison of federal and state finances contained much appeal, some merit and considerable oversimplification. To be sure, the federal red ink is overflowing. The Congressional Budget Office predicted last week that even if the President gets all the spending cuts he wants, which seems highly unlikely, deficits will average about $185 billion a year for the next five years, rather than declining to $144 billion by 1988, as the Administration projects. Meanwhile, the states, all of which except Vermont are forbidden by their own laws or constitutions to operate with...