Word: meriting
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...plan has been assailed as going too far and too fast by New York City's Board of Education. Superintendent Bernard Donovan claims that it would lead to the selection of teachers and principals on the basis of "pull, influence, race, or some other way instead of merit." Albert Shanker,*president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou sands" of resignations. Most Puerto Rican and Negro civil...
...many as recent reports might indicate. The President said last spring that he favors deferring students studying to be dentists and doctors, including veterinarians, osteopaths, and optometrists. The National Security Council asked the Interagency Advisory Committee on Essential Activities and Critical Occupations to compile a list of fields that merit deferments "in the national interest." The Committee's completed recommendations, which have slowly leaked out to the public, are presently known to include "the earth, biological, natural, and physical sciences"; teaching the new, and presently unknown, list of critical occupations (such as glass-blowing); also engineering, health, linguistics, mathematics, pharmacology...
...requirements of modern military leadership. Like the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom the commandant meets regularly as an associate member, Chapman is largely a product of Robert McNamara's industrialized Pentagon; last August he was given the Armed Forces Management Association's annual merit award for his mastery of management techniques in running the corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters-and for the past five months as assistant commandant. Chapman became known as a man of quiet competence. As a fellow officer described him: "You never...
...Paul A. Samuelson, professor of Economics at M.I.T., said last night that although De Gaulle's chief advisor was "an idiot," his programs were "not without merit." He also wrote in a Washington Post article that the British devaluation should have come three years earlier, when the Laborites "could have thrown the blame on the Tories...
...several small rooms with doors. The remains of the library offered last year's visitors with numerous opportunities for splendor in the shelves. Miss Clark said that the North House Committee would probably re-open the Lounge if a regular staff signed up or if demand were sufficient to merit recruiting supervisors...