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• n  any admirable quality or attribute
  work of great merit
• n  the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
• v  be worthy or deserving

• But the idea gaining the most momentumand controversyis merit pay, which attempts to measure the quality of teachers' work and pay teachers accordingly.
• Then, in a speech before the NEA in 2007, he endorsed merit pay, provoking scattered boos from the audience.
• In the cinema industry the small gold- washed statuets which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually awards for meritorious productions and performances are called.

• virtue
• deservingness
• meritoriousness
• deserve

• demerit

News & Articles

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• ZEISS Launches New Photomask Repair Tool MeRiT® HR II
  The new generation system MeRiT® HR II from ZEISS offers a significantly higher degree of automation and increased flexibility in the repair of transparent and opaque defects. Any defect geometry on all known as well as new mask types and materials can be processed: Binary, OMOG, HD MoSi and EUV.
  June 19, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• CSA Standards Announces Recipients of the 2013 Award of Merit
  CSA Group, a leading standards-based solutions organization, today officially announces the recipients of the 2013 Award of Merit. The Award of Merit is an honour bestowed by CSA Group to individuals that ...
  June 19, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Merit Debuts New Web Site
  Merit Network Inc. Monday announced the launch of its new web site, www.merit.edu. Merit says the new, interactive site is a valuable resource for technology services, training, news, and much more.
  June 17, 2013 - CBS Detroit

Quotes

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• Carlos Marchena in CBC.ca
  There have been great national teams before but this team is the one that has been able to be the best 'team,' and that's how it has managed to get where it is,Marchena said. "We've already had great disappointments without merit and in...
• Diego Lugano in The Associated Press
  I suppose the press have made the Netherlands (the) favorite,Uruguay captain Diego Lugano said. "The Netherlands and Uruguay play differently but we are at this stage on merit and we'll just have to see what happens in the match."
• Max Baucus in KPAX-TV
  Baucus says she received that independently and quote, "not surprisingly to anyone who's looked at her resume, got the DOJ job on her merit".