Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Literature is the only form of communication we have that is judged only on merit," John Cheever, author of "Falconer" and six collections of short stories, told a crowd of about 200 students at Paine Hall last night...
Christmas has come a little early for 389 members of the White House staff-all those, in fact, who earn less than $47,500. Santa Carter has boosted their pay by 7.05%, effective Oct. 9. While many of the staffers no doubt deserved a merit raise, the blanket increase-to a top of $47,500 for some people-lifted Washington eyebrows. Quite a few who got the increases had held modest to middling jobs before joining the White House staff, made fractions of their current pay, and were hired less for their professional ability than for the political help they...
West High's academic offerings are impressive, and the school boasts twelve semifinalists on this year's National Merit Scholarship competition, which singles out the brightest seniors in America. College-bound seniors can elect advanced placement courses, apply to take courses at the university or propose "study projects," in which they can tackle anything from music to horse training. Yet, as at Medford and Coos Bay, the easier route beguiles many. To graduate, students must complete 180 hours of graded coursework, including 45 hours in language arts (which must include nine terms of English), 15 hours in science...
What are Shahak's claims that were so important as to merit a full page special? Mistreatment and torture of Arab prisoners is common practice; concentration camps are rampant throughout Israel; Menachem Begin has a "covenant" comparable to that held by the PLO. But if one looks a little further than The Crimson article one finds that Shahak himself admits that he has "no proof of this (torture...
Indeed one does, retort the advocates, of affirmative action. Says Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League: "Opponents of affirmative-action programs live in some kind of dream world where people truly advance on their merits and all is efficiently governed by a neutral merit system. That world does not exist. Merit is socially defined." Colleges, for example, have traditionally favored not only middle-class males but also sons of alumni. For all the progress in desegregation, blacks still must surmount a crushing residue of two centuries of discrimination in acquiring the tools and attitudes required to compete...