Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mention the nation's richest. But if officials give into the temptation to sell bits and pieces to the highest bidder, how can the University maintain its institutional independence and its own ethical integrity? And how can Harvard preserve its newfound status as an institution based on merit and no longer just status and wealth...
...reflection, better choices might be made. But the argument is that, in essence, ability, like hair color, is inherited and, like hair color, is unworthy of differential privilege. In this light, "education," in the sense of liberating one from prejudice, is agreed to be impossible and attempts to reward merit are rendered corrupt. Hence there is no reason not to ensure "equality of outcomes" for any population, whether of human beings or books...
...spite of her academic achievements, many of Raisa's fellow citizens perceive her as having risen to prominence not so much through merit as through marriage, something of a throwback in an egalitarian society like the Soviet Union. "Raisa Maximovna ought to be more modest," says a young village woman. "If we knew she was a help to her husband on these trips and didn't just go along to enjoy herself, our whole impression of her would be different." Adds Luda Yevsukova, a Soviet emigre in Washington: "She's a normal woman who married well. She gets nice clothes...
Last Tuesday after the union won the election by a close margin, Taylor announced that the University might file such a complaint. University officials have not made a final decision since they want to be certain that the charge is legitimate and serious enough to merit holding a recall election, Taylor said...
...close scrutiny of the fine print shows that Harvard's salary increases are not being compared to other universities' salary increases, but to their merit budget increases. Merit budgets are not total salary increases, only one minor component. Harvard is comparing apples with oranges...