Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society is open to all former disgruntled, embittered, and exhausted physics majors who have changed fields. "The Society is divided into several grades of membership, based on the purity and merit of their (sic) new major," according to the manifesto...
...economic miracle." In 1953, after Adenauer asked him to settle up Allied war claims against Germany, Abs succeeded in re-establishing West Germany's international financial credit at the relatively modest cost of $3.3 billion-a feat for which the German government gratefully awarded him its Order of Merit...
...nation's educated class and caused mass resignations of top officials, often in protest against arbitrary arrests; the removal of some of Diem's relatives and cronies who are widely believed to be lining their pockets at government expense; the basing of army promotions on merit rather than on personal loyalty to Diem; the creation of a centralized intelligence agency instead of the present plethora of police, army and administrative systems, whose rivalry prevents swift movement against the elusive Red guerrillas; a widespread implementation of land reform to win back the invaluable support of the Vietnamese peasants...
...Merit Badges. Charities would obviously be better off if donors just sent their checks straight on to the Boys Club or whatever. But there is not much excitement in that. Explains Count Lanfranco Rasponi, a fortyish Italian bachelor whose title gives him an extra cachet as a society adviser and ball arranger: "Life at home as such is becoming extinct in certain circles. The dinner is generally catered, one always sees the same waiters and often the same menu. People are finding that they have more fun at balls...
...This entitles an eager beaveress to be photographed for the society pages with an established society leader at a fashionable restaurant, and may even lead to a mention in a gossip column. The earnest climber who accumulates enough of such credits, like an Eagle Scout with a sash of merit badges, obtains recognition among her peers...