Word: meriting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Current trends in the management of information by the federal government merit the attention of all who are concerned with academic discourse and general commerce in ideas. In recent years, federal information policies and practices have tended to limit the availability of certain categories of information to scholars and other members of the public, occasionally restraining private communication and enhancing the likelihood that government officials will exercise unwarranted influence over the content of published information...
Poonies may not have much to worry about, however, since Snit's initial request for funding from the Office of the Arts was rejected because "the quality of the humor was judged to be not artistically...up to par [and] did not merit a grant," said Cathy D. McCormick, who works at the Office...
...United States Supreme Court, only to be denied the object of a life's work and thought--and, some would say, politicking. But if the predicament Judge Bork found himself in when he learned the Senate would not assent to his nomination deserves our understanding, it does not merit our sympathy...
...role in the party's nominating process; some 475 of 3,933 voting delegates to the 1984 Democratic Convention were members of the National Education Association or American Federation of Teachers. Both groups have been skeptical of such ideas for improving the quality of education as competency tests and merit pay for teachers unless teachers themselves exercise considerable control over whatever plans are adopted. Democrats tread cautiously in this area; they cannot afford either to antagonize the unions or to expose themselves to the charges of catering to special interests that were hurled with such devastating effect at Walter Mondale...
When the Democrats were asked in the North Carolina debate what differences they had with the N.E.A., only Jesse Jackson gave the union a ringing endorsement. Most of the others favored some form of "accountability" for teachers, and some went further, backing the principle of merit pay. Said former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt: "We need the guts and creativity to pay the best teachers more." But all seven were vehement in defending the N.E.A. against the harsh attacks of Education Secretary Bennett, who shortly before the forum called the union the "most misnamed organization in America." Senator Albert Gore promised...