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Word: meriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significantly. I think there might be some merit to one six-year term, however. I am beginning to move in that direction. Q. If you could do one or two or three big things before leaving office, what would they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Parting Words from President Ford | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...students and the suggestion that community affairs and issues be included in the academic structure. Also the report asks that the University contribute the part-time salary for an educational advisor who could provide advice and instruction to student volunteers at Phillips Brooks House, a suggestion with great merit. Perhaps only because of its novelty in a report filled with so much unoriginal thinking, the task force's suggestion that Memorial Hall be turned into a coffee house or a beer hall seems admirable. Such a move would create a meeting place for students and Faculty, something now noticeably lacking...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: One Piano Tuner | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...Carter camp insists that the selection is based on merit. An aide claims that when Carter requested recommendations, people told him, "You've got the best man in the country right down there in Atlanta"−meaning Bell. Outgoing Attorney General Edward Levi praises Bell as a "very distinguished appointment." Another top official in the Justice Department describes Bell as an above-average appeals-court judge. He also thinks that Bell may turn out to be an above-average Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A 'General' Named Bell? | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...toss them out for missing one rehearsal. There is not much he can do about the parents. One mother actually strode onstage during a key rehearsal and grabbed her child away because the family was having a dinner party. "It's a chore," Stevenson confesses. "But the merit is getting the children into the theater both on the stage and in the audience." At a performance in San Antonio, he says, "you could hear the children in the audience screaming with joy when Fritz scares Clara with the rat. There is no other ballet like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Tis the Nutcracker Season | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...second match in a row, fourth-ranked Mark Panarese had the easiest time of things. He allowed just 12 points in a 15-7, 15-4, 15-1 blitz and after the match the big question was whether or not Panarese had worked up enough of a sweat to merit a shower...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Perfection at Hemenway: Racquetmen Blank Army | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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