Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tremor hit the London Stock Exchange, driving it down 27.3 on Thursday, its ninth greatest drop. In Ontario, the Toronto Stock Exchange dropped 2.4%, its largest one-day fall in 6 1/2 years. The day was "wild and woolly -- one of those rocket sessions," said Ron Woods of Merit Investment of Toronto. There was also a surge of selling on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and even a fistfight. Two young traders punched each other as they fought to execute their sell orders...
...Dean Graham T. Allison '62 announced that his school of government would award Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for distinguished public service. Allison eventually was forced to apologize to students and faculty at the school for his unilateral decision to honor Meese, who quite clearly does not merit such an award...
Harvard administrators, it seems, take little interest in the views of foreign leaders who aren't polo-playing representatives of prestigious British universities. Harvard men and women whom Bok has not yet admitted to the Society of Educated Men and Women apparently don't merit much consideration either...
...while Levine was employed by Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb (now merged into Shearson Lehman), his illicit trading activities helped puff up the price of stock in Itek, an electronics firm, just as Litton was preparing to buy the company. Shearson officials have described the Litton damage claim as "without merit...
During the '70s, the stream of politically influenced appointments began to ebb. Confident that new laws had reined in the courts' ability to make trouble, the government selected judges on the basis of merit. The newer appointees included younger jurists who had been exposed to the U.S. civil rights movement. Now, says John Dugard, a law professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, "we are seeing a new generation of judges who are concerned with curbing the excesses of the administration and with the upholding of civil liberties...