Word: meritably
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...board member of Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Allied Corp., improperly passed along inside information to his friends. The day before the SEC filed its civil complaint in a New York federal court, Thayer resigned as the Pentagon's No. 2 man. Thayer termed the charges "entirely without merit" and vowed to fight them. At week's end his replacement had been named: William Howard Taft IV, the self-effacing chief counsel of the Defense Department, a protégé of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and great-grandson of the 27th President...
...claim that artistic merit is wholly dependent upon the medium employed is about as sophisticated an analysis as saying "my kid sister could have done that" when viewing a painting by Pollock...
Paul F. Healy, deputy chief of the Boston U.S. Attorney's criminal division, said yesterday that his office evaluates each case brought to it separately. About 95 percent of those which federal or state agencies thought had merit went to a grand jury, he added...
Nonetheless, the idea has merit. The distinction between "strategic" missiles, defined by the U.S. as those with ranges of 3,400 miles or more, and "intermediate-range" weapons has always been arbitrary. Westerners remark that Soviet strategic missiles can hit London or Rome as easily as Chicago; Moscow considers any missiles capable of striking the U.S.S.R. to be strategic, whatever their range. Merging the two sets of talks would make possible more varied trade-offs between different types of weaponry...
...advances continued, accompanied by what the woman claims were veiled threats to jeopardize her career. She eventually complained to Henry Rosovsky, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, who found that the case had merit. Rosovsky wrote her a letter stating, "The repeated sexual advances and certain other deprecating actions constituted a serious abuse of authority." In an August out-of-court settlement, Harvard stripped Professor Jorge Dominguez of his committee powers but did not suspend him. The woman's contract was extended, although she is now doing research in Latin America...