Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edited the one volume An Encyclopedia of World History, which serves as a standard reference work for many students. Beginning in World War II, he served in several positions with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State, and in 1945 President Truman awarded him the Medal for Merit for his intelligence work during the war. Even more commendable is the fact that during his years of government service Langer was a strong advocate of the right of historians and the public to gain access to classified government records...
...whites did, and they faced discrimination and hardship of their own, albeit much less severe than that faced by blacks. And they cannot understand why they should have to pay for the sins of the people who oppressed them too. Their ethos--that success should be the reward of merit alone, an ethos that allowed them to compete with the rest of America by stressing hard work and education--is being threatened, and they react with fear and anger. Some examples are in order...
...affirmative action program for minorities? If a student can't pass the entrance exam how is he going to handle the school's tough curriculum? If these schools--bastions of academic excellence in a school system of declining funds, declining quality, declining interest--are undermined by considering race over merit, where does the middle class have left...
...outside world. Critics like Coffin tend to see the resurgence of Evangelicalism as one more sign of a self-preoccupied and self-serving national swing toward conservatism in general. The argument is that the outward-looking reformist '60s have regressed into the selfish '70s. The charge has some merit. But there is also much to the Evangelical theory that a man must dramatically change his life and values before he can begin to affect things around him. "We want to change the world," says Manhattan Evangelist Bill Bray, "but we want to change ourselves first...
...responds in the affirmative, one should base one's support for PIRG on its record and merit as an advocate for consumers. --Courtland J.W. Troutman...