Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merit schools" program, which would provide $100,000 grants to schools that have shown improved educational performance and reduced drop-out rates. Price: $250 million...
Graham said she believed the merit schools program was a good idea but that problems might arise in defining what "merit" is, since schools in different regions of the country may have different needs and goals...
Although Bundy said he was unsure of the merit of Bush's recent nomination of John G. Tower for secretary of defense, he added that he thinks the choice of Brent Scowcroft as assistant to the president for national security affairs was a good one. Scowcroft now holds the same post Bundy did under President John F. Kennedy...
...what if Harvard produces fewer profit-chewing physicians, some might charge, citing the classic occupation for science majors. That objection has some merit. Yet science concentrations also prepare research doctors, of whom we can never have enough. Science concentrations also make for more broadly informed politicians, lawyers and businessmen, all of whom may have to deal with scientific issues such as the atmosphere and genetics...
...Funding for such student projects can come principally from two sources: the Undergraduate Council or the Office for the Arts. The Office for the Arts, although generally kind and generous, is mostly interested in funding flashy, one-time-event, art projects. Nothing so regular and ordinary, with certifiable artistic merit and benefit to the community as a literary magazine deserves consideration. That is unless you are just starting up, rather than, as in the case of Padan Aram, you have a history of putting out one damn good magazine...