Word: meriting
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After a battle over buttons, some might accuse the council of having turned a molehill into a volcano. However, a majority of the council felt Burton's offenses were serious enough to merit his removal for "conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student." Although we sympathize with Burton's recent personal and political troubles, the unfortunate fact is that he has acted in ways unbecoming of a council vice president. A single foolish decision that could have been easily remedied with a shamefaced apology snowballed into a serious question about Burton's willingness to admit wrongdoing and make the interests...
Surely there is merit to courses taught in the language of the culture that count for Foreign Cultures. Yet including them in the Core will eat up valuable resources in the Core Program. This becomes an argument about the Core's greatest injustice: Departmental classes cannot be taken automatically for Core credit...
...flat tax with minimal loopholes, McCain proposed a tax plan riddled with loopholes for the middle class that would make flattening the tax rates more difficult. He wants to pass federal education funds back to the states with no strings attached; meanwhile he would require states to institute merit-pay programs, new teacher-hiring incentives and other Washington-mandated reforms. He says he'll push the health-care system toward a "free-market model," while having the Federal Government pay for additional benefits such as prescription drugs...
Witnesses at the hearing also discussed "merit aid," a form of tuition discount that allows students to bargain for prices lower than those advertised...
Once Giuliani makes his expected announcement to run, neither contestant will have time to breathe until November - at which point members of their passionate followings will duke it out at the polls. In the end, experts predict, this race could take on historic dimensions. Not just on the merit of Hillary's groundbreaking run as the first First Lady to pursue political office, but because it could turn out to be the ugliest and most expensive race anyone's ever seen. And hey, in New York, that's saying...