Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lundy's fanciful roofs have now brought him commissions for a ski resort in New Mexico, a school in Westport, Conn., a Unitarian church in Fairfield County, Conn. But more than commissions and prizes (his $80,000 St. Paul's Lutheran Church just got an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects), Lundy treasures the enthusiastic response of the people who use his buildings. "There is nothing contrived about my architecture," he says. "It is bold and naked. If it doesn't succeed, then everybody knows about...
...contends that so much corporate stock is held by employees that they need the protection of a secret ballot to vote against management proposals. When Mrs. Soss first petitioned the corporation for her proposal, it refused. Mrs. Soss took her case to the SEC, which, without ruling on the merit of the proposal, told the corporation to put it on the ballot...
...bloated state payroll by 15%, Combs next sent to the general assembly a 16-point reform program put together by himself and Wyatt. Among the measures pushed through the assembly ("This," said one legislator, "has been the hardest-working, lightest-drinking session in Kentucky's history"): 1) a merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education...
Prepared. In Bangor, Me., after police nabbed a 14-year-old boy trying to crack the safe of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, he explained that he had found his way through the darkened building by lighting an application card for a Boy Scout merit badge...
...state that despite its excellent advanced program, Andover can only squeeze 43% of its students into the "Big Three." Andover is not attempting such squeezing at all. The dean has made great attempts to put students into schools where they will derive the greatest benefit. Two of our Merit Scholarship winners, certainly outstanding students, chose from the 44 other colleges, because they believed they could derive more from them. A big-name school, as you report, is by no means an assurance of the best education, even for a good student...