This rapid and unanimous verdict confirms, once again, that this claim never had any merit.

The political culture involves favors and paybacks, and it may not involve merit.

He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn’t do it — nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes.

Especially being selected as a national merit scholar, I'm just fantastically proud of her, ... But it's just real tough knowing that that her mom couldn't be there. That's real hard.

That's the signal we're going to give. This one has the merit of proposing something concrete, offering to put on the market quantities which will help stabilize (the price), which we need,

We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit override consideration.