Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hydra Head's merit lies not in its style, but is its theme. Mexico's discovery of oil has raised many questions about its political and economic relations to other nations, its potential for development, and its ability to resolve domestic inequalities...
...Afro-Am Department is evaluated by a respected and racially-balanced committee who finds it lacking in academic merit, then Harvard is justified in changing the department. This is not evidence of Harvard's lack of concern for minority needs...
...Gent's book, Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, in the March 23 Crimson. Although I have not read Gent's book and thus have no comment about Dalton's treatment of it, there are enough gratuitous salvos against my home state of Texas in the course of the review to merit this response...
...Teamsters union, which is seeking pay raises as high as 38% over three years, far beyond those permitted under the guidelines. Unions generally cite rising corporate profits (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) as one reason to demand bigger raises. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's top inflation fighter, concedes some merit in labor's claim and protests that "the business community has not been assuming their full responsibility in the anti-inflation fight." However, the acerbic economist contends that any settlement that goes beyond the guidelines would be "an act of aggression against the American people...
Marius's proposal also fails to deal with the broader problems in the Expository Writing program as a whole. By most accounts, other Expos courses do not train students to write skillful expository prose either, and certainly do not motivate already-competent essay-writers to improve their prose, a merit fiction teachers claim for the fiction options. Marius would do well to concentrate his reforming energies on these far more serious drawbacks to the program, so that Harvard's required Expository Writing course will begin to turn out accomplished, or at the very least, competent, writers, as it is supposed...