Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impressive display for a composer whose first memorable work was completed at age 48 and whose musical merit was debated for years. An ardent nationalist and legendary eccentric, Janacek composed music full of short, abrupt but harmonically lovely melodies that built from one another into a driving whole. His symphonic works called for more brass and slashing power than many an orchestra could muster. Because Czech consonant clusters are so prickly, his operas were considered hopeless tongue twisters by singers outside his country. The subjects-time warps, prison-camp life, child murder-left audiences pining for the heraldic posturing more...
...conferees heard university professors lecture on the Action Line concept. ("Conversely, where one cannot rely on the power of the third-party intervenor, alienation appears to increase.") They made some Action Line merit awards, started a newsletter and planned next year's second annual Action Line Conference, this time without Coming's benign sponsorship...
Good for Brand, O'Connell and Orlick and the new no-win, noncompetitive games [Sept. 11]. Acceptance of them will be slow in a nation geared to tot-'em-up victories and defeats. Surely, the human race can see the merit inherent in striving to become better doctors and teachers, parents and human beings, and will try to improve in the important ways without the empty rewards of raised arms and Scoreboard lights...
Second, the social consequences of public sector expansion merit careful scrutiny. Government consistently expands its role in the economy, and the economic strains generated by fiscal restraint within the public sector are already engendering new social tensions...
Under its present contract, faculty members are granted pay increases commensurate with "merit points," which are assigned to each professor by the university administration on the basis of a faculty member's academic performance and output, the union representative said...