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Word: meriting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-advertised attempt to put France rather than Barbie on trial. Verges sought to shift the focus of attention from Barbie to the alleged crimes of France, other West European countries and the U.S. in the Third World. The lawyer demanded of the court, "Do crimes against humanity only merit this name when they are committed against Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France A Verdict on the Butcher | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...care for your child," observes Elaine Claar Campbell, a Chicago investment banker. She and her lawyer-husband Ray, armed with five pages of questions, spent three months interviewing more than 50 people, before settling on Clara Hawkes, 47, an artist from Santa Fe whose own daughter is a National Merit Scholar. "You don't want to gamble with your child," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Child-Care Dilemma | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...desires to abandon the reconstructive measures of Roosevelt. His views on social security, farm aid, conservation of resources, and relief all bear the stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust," were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William Allen White and Charles Taft to [Rexford] Tugwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landon: A Duty and a Hope | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...letter defends Harvard's hiring policies.Spence wrote that he and Epps "agree that weshould be constantly vigilant to insure that ourpolicies of promotion stress merit andcontribution to the College...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Spence Says Dean Search Was Fair | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...political scientist ((EDUCATION, May 11)) has helped perpetuate the myth that physical scientists are totally objective in their work. Obviously, you have not noticed how physicists mold their positions on the feasibility of President Reagan's Star Wars program to correlate with their political ideologies. While the scientific merit of Political Scientist Samuel Huntington's work is debatable, Mathematician Serge Lang's comments on that work reveal considerable ignorance about the nature of science. This is not surprising. Though mathematics is the language of science, it is not a science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Academic Brouhaha | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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