Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have proved fertile ground for send-them-a-message protest votes. But never before have the party's two strongest candidates in the polls, as well as its two most adept performers on television, been protest candidates of a sort. Hart represents an entirely new species: for all the merit of many of his stands on issues, his candidacy can only be understood as a passionate protest against his self-inflicted political fate. In a sense, Hart is questing after a national pardon, but he is too proud and too stiff-necked...
...commentary, "Political Machines," Steven Lichtman argues that the proposed installation of condom dispensers is a matter that does not merit the serious consideration it has received. Apparently ignoring the vast portion of the campus which has worked for or supported the proposal, he implies that the Undergraduate Council has used the issue for political motives. This conclusion is based upon a misunderstanding of the nature of the plan outlined by the council, and a line of reasoning which rambles from irrelevant facts to plain silliness. Worst of all, he ignores the facts in denying the importance of condoms...
...hand for testing predictable, if rough, new boundaries. Stephen Hess, a Brookings Institution scholar who analyzes the collision of newsies and pols, thinks a "self-correcting mechanism" is beginning to work, by which journalists will "pick and grope their way" to balance. If so, at least two criteria merit consideration in any new equation: relevance and proportion...
...reforms through parliament. A reworked version of a 120-point plan that leaders of the republics flatly rejected last month, the measures froze prices of some food staples but increased others by up to 70%. The goal: to bring prices into line with costs of production. Whatever the economic merit of the moves, they provoked a fire storm of protest and criticism...
...Case is set for trial in February 1988. Harvard's position remains what it has always been: Barbara Jackson received an exhaustively fair and thorough evaluation of her tenure caandidacy. Her gender had nothing to do with the decision, and her case against Harvard has no merit. Office of the General Counsel