Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most often, that kind of subjectivity is what makes security a women's issue, according to some on campus. Fear of violence may be a universal undergraduate preoccupation, Zellweger says, but women's concerns about rape--about security in general--merit special attention...
Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A.Thernstrom, who said he also opposed specialhiring procedures, said faculty appointmentsshould be based solely on merit...
...that while Congress was looking after its own interests, it had delayed action on a federal child-care plan and failed to pass a budget -- leaving servicemen, Medicare recipients, farmers and other federal beneficiaries vulnerable to the automatic Gramm-Rudman-Hollings cutbacks. "If the issue were based on merit alone," he said, "Congress would be forced to take...
...bother making a special effort to diversify the faculty? The issue demands attention because of the special role of education in a democracy. In a society that prides itself on equality of opportunity, many of life's prospects hinge on merit and achievement, which grow out of a sound education. A faculty that reflects the composition of society domonstrates that anyone can attain knowledge and power, that no one sex or ethnic group has a monopoly on the truth...
...front of the embassy should begin to thin under the impact of new rules issued in Washington. Would-be emigrants will no longer be allowed to apply for visas in the embassy's consular office; instead, they must fill out an application and send it to Washington. Applicants who merit refugee status will be notified by international postcard to report to the | embassy in Moscow for a personal interview...