But there are larger merits to David's argument (there are a lot) and by the end of this post I hope I'll have explained a little better what we actually could do to control costs.
But something is clearly amiss in the U.S. tax code, and our legislative system in general, when the only way a Congressperson can push for a change in tax policy is to do one or other demonize or play the jobs card--and not debate its larger merits or drawbacks.
Her oldest did not qualify for a large merit scholarship five years ago, she said, in part because his grades were not high enough.
She said she applied to 23 colleges — among them, Wellesley, Colgate, Carnegie Mellon, Dickinson and Lafayette — to see which would offer her the largest merit, or non-need based, scholarship.
The system had one large merit: the city worked.Most of the 13 years after Daley senior's reign were characterised by racial antagonism, and they were not happy ones for Chicago politics.
The identification of binary sequences with large merit factor (small mean-squared aperiodic autocorrelation) is an old problem of complex analysis and combinatorial optimization, with practical importance in digital communications engineering and condensed matter physics.
The problem of constructing polynomials with all coefficients 1 or −1 and large merit factor (equivalently with small L4 norm on the unit circle) arises naturally in complex analysis, condensed matter physics, and digital communications engineering.
Mr. Walters rose to the upper ranks of the housing agency, which the city calls the nation's largest municipal builder of affordable housing, during the scheme, city records show, and his salary rose to $131,983 from $71,501 between 2002 and 2006 through a large merit raise and several smaller increases.
But some union officials said that because the contract was more generous than city officials had originally planned, the city would probably not be able to find much more money in its budget to make large merit payments on top of the across-the-board raises.
This estimate is larger than that found by Sjoquist and Winters (forthcoming) for their baseline specification, possibly because HOPE is an especially large merit program.
