Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within months after Bork had acquired a $400,000-a-year partnership with his old Chicago firm and a $500,000 house, Attorney General William French Smith called offering Bork a spot on the D.C. Court of Appeals. The unspoken understanding was that a good performance would merit Bork top consideration for any Supreme Court vacancy...
...questions their credentials and the district's need for teachers of "distinguished merit." But administrators could not find Americans capable of teaching elementary school in French. Says Personnel Officer Bonnie Sims: "We searched the entire U.S. for qualified elementary teachers. It was necessary to go outside." Kansas City is appealing the decision...
Tobacco stocks surged after the decisions. On the day of the Boston ruling, American Brands climbed by 2 1/8, to close at 56 5/8. Shares of Philip Morris, the largest U.S. cigarette firm, which makes the Marlboro and Merit brands, rose 6 3/4, to 119 7/8. (Shares of Liggett & Myers are not publicly traded.) The cases, however, may still be appealed to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a host of similar cases are hanging fire; Liggett & Myers alone is the target of about 30. Of the estimated 125 product-liability cases pending against all tobacco companies, RJR Nabisco, manufacturer of Winston...
Nowhere has the issue of Asian-American student admission been more bitterly fought than at Berkeley. Activist groups charge that if acceptances were based purely on merit, there would be even more Asian-American students than the 5,610 who now make up a quarter of the 22,000 undergraduates. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ken M. Kawaichi, co-chairman of the Asian American Task Force on University Admissions, assails Berkeley's "good old boy" administrators. "The campus they envision is mostly white, mostly upper middle class with limited numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians," says Kawaichi. "One day they...
...Constitution's great merit lies in its timeliness, its depth and its durability. People like Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate, and Bernie Sanders, the socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt., would sacrifice the individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution for specific economic amendments. There is great danger in adopting ideas that may be fleeting in nature. Legislative avenues are available for the introduction of new notions...