Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, some Jews and Christians, like the placard-carrying fundamentalists in Los Angles last week, say that TM, despite its claims to being purely secular, is really Hinduism in disguise. Their argument has at least some merit, and though the ordinary meditator sees traces of religion only in the initiation ceremony, the rites for TM teachers are permeated with Hindu words and symbols...
...faculty have demanded the freedom to pursue their own interests with minimal constraint. To a large extent, curricular and other reforms in recent years have responded to this laissez-faire impulse. One consequence is a growing sense that all constraints are arbitrary, and that all choices are of equal merit...
...Service also approved, under pressure from Nixon's aides, valuable additions to his various homes for security measures that were of questionable merit...
Under the provisions of the Kraus plan, individual departments and their committees on graduate school admissions rank students for admission on the basis of academic merit. In making decisions on admissions, the departments are permitted to skip over higher-ranked needy students and accept lower-ranked students who are not in need...
...taken in three years, which may have done more to steady the nation's economic nerves than any official nostrum. He assembled all seven of his children for a rare family reunion, found time to think and decided that the slogan "Stay bored with Ford" had some great merit but second-guessed, "Maybe the President would not think...