Word: merited
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...while ago when I said, 'Look, I don't want to be one of your movie stars.' I quoted Sinatra: 'I owe you my best work, but I don't owe you the time of day,' which is"--he pauses--"not exactly how I feel. But there is some merit in that. Let me just do my work. I just do the work. I'll make movies, and you go to the cinema. Why can't we just keep it at that...
...some HLS professors, including HLS Dean Elena Kagan, said if the Review announced an affirmative action policy, it would imply that women could not be accepted based on merit alone...
...reality, there would be no argument about whether Locke or Hobbes belongs on a syllabus with limited space. Rather, the argument arises between those who believe a work’s merit should determine its inclusion in the curriculum and multiculturalists who clamor for representation of diverse perspectives—much like we observe in Foreign Cultures...
...Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize that whatever the postcard's failings, it at least had the merit of brevity...
...tracks like “So Says I” and “Turn a Square,” the Shins use electric and acoustic guitar, drums and sometimes keyboard in classic pop rhythms and catchy hooks which bring merit to the Beach Boys comparisons. Though this certainly shows the band is capable of stylistic evolution, it’s the more soothing tracks which showcase not only the best musical moments on the album, but lyrical development as well...