Word: merited
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After losing half its season to scandal, the Catamounts are "just happy to be alive," according to Head Coach Mike Gilligan. While Gilligan anticipates a reinvigorated Vermont squad finishing strongly enough in the ECAC to challenge for a chance at Lake Placid, the statistics just don't merit agreement...
...major debate between the two candidates has focused on teacher accountability and the merit of high-stakes testing to measure school success. Gore, unwilling to pressure the teachers' unions from which he derives a significant chunk of his support, would encourage schools to use voluntary testing to measure progress and merely requires that failing schools be identified. Yet without mandated testing to measure failing schools, a missing link exists between identifying these schools and fixing them...
...Bush's plan would let parents save as much as $5,000 a year in new tax-advantaged accounts that could be tapped for a wide range of education costs, from private kindergarten to graduate school. He also offers $1.5 billion in merit scholarships, most of which are likely to be claimed by kids from more affluent schools...
...Bush surprised many by his decision to emphasize tax policy in the final weeks of the campaign. After all, the tax issue should be a liability for Bush rather than an asset, representing easy fodder for the attacks of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore's charges have merit: as a whole, the Bush tax reforms would represent a step backward in the search for a fair and progressive tax policy. Unfortunately, given the current political climate, both candidates' tax plans have focused concern on middle-class and wealthy Americans rather than the poor, and neither man has presented...
...personal level, McCaffrey said he was skeptical of the programs' merit. "Science supports needle exchange as an aspect that may help to draw people into other treatment. I have personally concluded that we are remiss in endorsing as social policy treatments that leave people in misery," McCaffrey said...