Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While investment decisions colored by considerations other than financial merit may seem chancy, the socially oriented funds are so far performing about as well as the rest of the market. According to Lipper Analytical Securities, which tracks mutual funds, the total return on Calvert's Social Investment Managed Growth Portfolio for the year ended Sept. 30 was 28.6%, a bit more than the average 27.4% for standard growth-and-income funds. Says John Guffey, executive vice president of the fund: "Our record has shown that we can do at least as well as broad-based averages...
Several students also asked about the advantages of athletic and merit-based scholarships. Bok said he disapproved of such financial aid for Harvard students...
...sister Rose's lobotomy. Eerily, even at his most private and abandoned moments, this Williams surreptitiously watches what impact he is having on his audience. However much he may mistrust fame, he hungers for it; death is discussed chiefly in terms of how much space his obituary would merit in the New York Times...
...Celebration. It is unfortunate, perhaps insensitive, for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to schedule a ball that only some of the students can attend; it is downright offensive for him to choose who will be invited to lavish teas and dinners based on some nebulous conception of merit...
...will be a shame if Dean Epps chooses undergraduates on the basis of their lineage rather than their merit, but it is equally sad to see undergraduates craving fairness that would denigrate their individuality...