Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of investing money in high-risk, low-return areas has merit for individual investors,"Calkins added. "I think that to put some money where it will do some good will appeal to many people...
...give the course suitable academic merit," said Robert Karplus, one of the BED members, "so we changed Cleaver's role to that of a live source." Cleaver was to lecture once a week; the other weekly lecture would be by a professor or another guest lecturer--such as the Oakland Chief of Police...
Measure of Merit. Shanker concedes that there are bad teachers in the system and insists that his union is as interested in improving standards as anyone else. "You walk into a classroom," he says, "and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." But this, he says, happens because teachers "have been castrated," and the way to improve them is to give them more power. "Teachers are no longer willing to be supervised by people who have less professional competence than they...
There was a measure of merit in both men's arguments. Yet, while the quarrel went on, the ones who suffered most were those whom both Shanker and McCoy insist they want to help: the children in the classroom...
...strong platform planks on ending the war and resolving the urban crisis. He praised both McCarthy and Humphrey, who was his neighbor in Chevy Chase, Md., for nine years. He pledged that if either wins the nomination, "he will have my active support-not only for his own considerable merit but because there is nothing in Mr. Nixon's past record to indicate that he is a man of either peace or compassion...