Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spread, however, is likely to be gradual and "is dependent on funds," Pilbeam said. Although the program is "clearly of educational merit," he said that it was also labor intensive...
...dancing competition earlier in the week was a more predictable affair. As expected, the Soviets dominated, with three-time World Champions Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin claiming the gold. "B and B," as they are known, earned three perfect 6.0s for artistic merit from the panel of nine judges, delivering a theatrical long program that depicted the taming of a wild shrew. Heavily rouged and clad in garish black-and-gold costumes, the pair executed moves that were unarguably polished but at times bordered on the vulgar, particularly when Bestemianova repeatedly spread her legs and squatted...
...loving relative of Debi Thomas' could insist that the judges treated her unfairly Saturday night, but that was not quite the case two days earlier. As Thomas finished her short program, she clapped her hands together in triumph. Then came the scores and the boos. Thomas' marks for technical merit were high, but her grades for artistic presentation were much lower than those for Katarina Witt. Alex McGowan, Thomas' coach, held his nose in disgust. Later, McGowan seemed to accuse the three judges from East bloc countries -- Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Witt's native East Germany -- of protecting Thomas...
...skaters had to face: namely risky, exciting moves. While the audience waited anxiously to glimpse skaters perform a daring sequence of triple-jumps, who among the viewers held his or her breath while Witt flirted with the audience? There simply wasn't anything in her skating suspenseful enough to merit a gasp...
Sakharov said the Soviet Union has not yet made enough progress to merit holding an international human rights conference...