Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What trumpery. The issue is not the aesthetic merit of Tiffany jewelry but my parvenu pretensions in giving it. I was confronted with my folly a few years ago, while interviewing a marketing guru. "When you make a large purchase," he theorized, "there is a simple formula everyone follows -- risk reduction." His prime example, reading me perfectly, was the little blue Tiffany box, which he called "an expensive sign of riskless excellence...
...place like Harvard, such difficulties merit no surprise, according to Sullivan: "The transition from high school to a Division One college is demanding, especially when you factor in the academics...
...nineties. There is the snobbery about country of origin, the niggling distinctions about process of preparation, and the gratuitous use of descriptive yet totally inaccurate adjectives to distinguish flavor. The coffee illuminati can sip their Kenya AA or $30-per-pound Jamaican Blue Mountain while they debate the comparative merit of washed and dry-milled beans with an air of enlightened self-satisfaction...
...accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
...objective has merit. The government must protect everyone's right to enter an abortion clinic. Women seeking abortions should not be forced to endure pushing, shoving and other physical abuse while exercising their constitutional rights...