Word: meritably
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...illustrate that point: it's impossible for affirmative action appointments to be announced in public because to speak of someone as an affirmative action appointment is to insult that person by implying, or even saying that that appointment would not have been made on the basis of merit...
...Balance makes good viewing. Some of the acting is stellar a number of scenes more than make up for the predictability of the rest. The three Cesars (French "Oscars") this movie has garnered, however, probably have more to do with exoticism than with cinematic merit. Thinking of a Maxwell House coffee as Cafe American, after all will make it slightly more drinkable...
...otherwise simple bookkeeping task becomes complicated because so many students receive financial aid from Harvard or outside the University, like National Merit Scholarships...
...resources to sue individually every racist in America, there probably wouldn't be much of a problem in the first place (although in such a "sue-'em-all scenario," the courts would undoubtedly become over-crowded to the point of collapse). Less amusing is the fact that "merit" is usually trumpeted as the supreme good which affirmative action undermines, while in reality, anyone can name a thousand and one instances in which factors other than merit were taken into acount in, for example, getting a job. There are too many people who get jobs through parents, friends, "old-boy" networks...
...ahead. It may also be negligent or grudging in reiterating the candidates' positions on the issues, perhaps because reporters have had to listen to each candidate's basic speech so many times. The charge that the press focuses only on the front runners has less merit: look at the coverage given to that latecomer, the Rev. Jesse Jackson...