Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both have claimed repeatedly that the recession is not yet sufficiently serious to merit federal spending on socially useful projects. The depression constitutes an opportunity not only to ameliorate various social sore spots, but also to provide a solid foundation for an expanding economy. Injunctions from the White House about increasing both confidence and consumption only tend to obscure the problems of the recession and to postpone the eventual reassessment...
Dictator-Coddling & Neglect. The charge that most impressed Nixon is that the U.S. has let itself seem more and more the friend of hated dictators. Thrown in his face again and again were such questions as, "Why did Eisenhower give Perez Jimenez the Legion of Merit? Why was that ruthless dictator admitted to the U.S. with such ease after he fell?" Nixon concluded that his unhappy reception in Caracas was a direct result of "ten years of dictatorship" associated in the public mind with...
...only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study on merit pay has poked along for four years, but teachers have been consistently cool to the idea of raises given according to ability. Said one disgusted citizen last week: "Sure a good career teacher is worth more money. And a science teacher is worth more than a gymnasium teacher...
...government employees and others, who cannot now qualify for state compensation payments. The Democratic version won House Speaker Sam Rayburn's approval. And it headed for the floor under the aegis of Ways & Means Chairman Mills, who as head of a prestige-heavy committee could expect his recommendations, merit aside, to be accepted by the majority party almost without question...
Course reduction study, of course, necessitates trust on the faculty's part that a student will put in honest work at his project. Students who win departmental approval and the permission of the Advanced Standing Office have, however, normally proved their merit and scholastic maturity. According to a recent poll answered by the approximately fifty students working with course reduction, practically all of the group concurred that independent study had been one of their most stimulating academic experiences. Aside from the intrinsic value of what they had learned, most found the opportunity for unsupervised work highly rewarding. The course reduction...