Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line" the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training in her life? I am more concerned with the artisitic merit of the cast and I definitely take more offense to a non-dancer in a dance musical rather than an all-Asian cast...
...happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line," the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training in her life? I am more concerned with the artistic merit of the cast and I definitely take more offense to a non-dancer in a dance musical rather than an all-Asian cast...
...recognize that his chances of confirmation are not much better than the odds that Breathalyzers will be installed in the Senate cloakroom. But his argument serves as a deft reminder that there are also Senators whose alcoholic and amorous behavior might not stand sustained scrutiny. There is just enough merit to Tower's who-is-fit-to-judge-whom bluster to accentuate the confusion over the proper standards of conduct for public officials...
Scarce rent-controlled apartments are often distributed based not at all on need or merit, but via "Reward for Rent-Controlled Apartment" posters on our streets. One current sign, for example, stuck in front of the Coop bookstore building, offers (on professionally printed, slick, self-stick paper) $1500 cash for information leading to a rentcontrolled apartment. This money is customarily paid to a tenant moving out, for introducing the reward payer to the landlord...
Collins says she is particularly proud of a pilot program that brought together teachers and both state and local officials to plan a merit pay system...