Word: meriting
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...told the Times. "You have mobility so people with talents can be put to the best use. Without the estate tax, you in effect will have an aristocracy of wealth, which means you pass down the ability to command the resources of the nation based on heredity rather than merit...
...whatever grade inflation may exist at Harvard and what purpose it serves, if any. To be sure, if grade inflation exists, and I believe it does, it does a disservice to the undergraduate community. The fact remains that grade inflation devalues the efforts of those students who truly merit an "A" and gives those who do not deserve such a grade an inaccurate impression of the value of their work. All of this, though, has already been discussed and debated throughout this week...
Small-scale changes to the College's rules--like administrators' recent decision to ban kegs at future Harvard-Yale football games--do not merit much attention as indicators of a larger ideological crackdown, Lewis argues...
Some have charged that Kagame's emphasis on merit over ethnicity simply hides the influence of Rwanda's Tutsi minority. But in dividing Rwandan politics into undifferentiated Hutu and Tutsi camps, these critics miss the point: the most important positions in Rwanda (as well as a disproportionate share of places in government, the army and schools) are held by Tutsi raised in exile, not the Tutsi who endured years of discrimination in Rwanda and lived through the genocide...
...George W. Bush is the person of the moment, but he did not have the influence over events in the year 2000 to merit your choice." JIM BOYD Emporia, Kans...