Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significant gains," Alan Balsam, chief shop steward for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, said yesterday. "Some people felt the offer was not really what we were looking for, but I think that our differences are not that great to merit further action...
...business has been lucrative. Commissions and miscellaneous fees can add up to $2 million on a $200 million loan-and that does not count later collections of interest. In addition, Communist countries have a good record of paying debts promptly. Says one American banker: "There is a lot of merit in lending to a stable, centralized, planned economy...
Even Kennedy and the other reformers concede that the immense complexity of tax laws creates situations where certain customized legislative tidbits have merit. But the reformers protest that there are just too many such tidbits in the Senate's bill, pushed through by special interests with the political muscle to get the legislation they want. Such actions upset not only liberals but also conservatives like New York's James Buckley. The bill, complains Buckley, "constitutes the worst possible collection of tax preferences for the lobbied interests, while specifically excluding provisions which would have made life easier for those...
Last spring the Exxon Education Foundation deemed the Rassias method an "educational innovation of demonstrated merit," made a film of Rassias in action, and sent out word about it to 2,500 college presidents and deans. According to Rassias, some adaptation of his drills could be used for any kind of class. "Hell," says he, "we should be using this method to teach English to English-speaking people. It makes them better communicators in any language...
...like the way he attacks problems. Most politicians, I regret to say, begin with polls and then back into a solution after they've analyzed what may be popular, and avoid what is unpopular. At least, in our discussions we talked about problems first on their own merit ... One thing that appeals to Democrats-he's shown a lot of courage on civil rights. Here's a man who looks honest, looks decent, looks like he can manage, looks like he's not full of himself and looks like he's free. He doesn...