Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Della Terza says he has devoted countless hours to demonstrating that his decision not to hire Napoli was based on merit alone, and he is pained by her suggestions to the contrary. "I see that you are involving me rather directly in your strongly polemical approach to the problem of your candidacy," he wrote to her in 1973. When she was his student, he went on to remind her, she "protested vehemently and dramatically" when he told her that only "long and patient training" could overcome her linguistic difficulties. He dismissed her claim that the department changed its offerings...
...first, to be dedicated to Nixonalia. In Washington, a three-judge federal panel denied the ex-President possession of the 42 million documents and 880 White House tapes accumulated during his Administration. Nixon's claim that the material belonged solely to him was dismissed as "without merit" by the court...
...Limit. The last attempt to restrict awards was made by Charles de Gaulle, who abolished 17 government awards in 1963, leaving a mere 102 extant. At the same time, he established the National Order of Merit, known as "the poor man's Legion of Honor." No limit was placed on the number of these awards, and 90,000 have already been given to such people as a carpet-factory foreman, the head of off-track betting and a bicycle-race winner. The bonanza of medals is not restricted to Frenchmen. "During a French state visit to, say, Egypt," notes...
About 1950 Russell suddenly became respectable. For his prolific output of technical and popular philosophy, social criticism and history, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and England's Order of Merit. Such respectability made the inveterate outsider in Russell uneasy. Occasionally, those bestowing the honors were uncomfortable too. As he was decorating the philosopher imp with the Order of Merit, King George euphemistically remarked...
...adviser who could provide advice and instruction to student volunteers at Phillips Brooks House should be carried out. The various recommendations to increase student participation in Cambridge life and politics, particularly the Voter Information Program, should be implemented. The proposal to turn Memorial Hall into a beer hall has merit, and should not be taken lightly...