Wali acknowledges that there's no promise that that will happen, but sounds an optimistic tone, noting the "explosion in the number of exchanges" and offering that Merit will "work its way up that list, approaching the smaller exchanges first and, as the adoption of Merit grows, presenting a stronger case to go after bigger exchanges".
The symmetry between an individual's merit and his/her material holdings is therefore broken, even reversed, since the less one takes for oneself, and the more one brings to the common good, the more one's merit grows in the eyes of witnesses.
More than 80 are listed as available in The Plant Finder and of those, a dozen have been given an Award of Garden Merit for growing in a cool (frost-free) greenhouse.
While there are no national statistics post-recession, an Education Department study released last fall showed that the percentage of students receiving merit aid grew so rapidly from 1995 to 2008 that it rivaled the number of students receiving need-based aid.
Here's a sampling of the data: In a related article, Christopher Drew reports that the percentage of students receiving merit aid grew rapidly from 1995 to 2008, so much so that "it rivaled the number of students receiving need-based aid".
In particular, assay sensitivity is becoming an important figure of merit as interest grows in studying minute quantity samples, such as needle biopsies, aspirates, and circulating tumor cells (CTCs), rather than bulk tissue.
Their lyrics discuss the merits of growing up, growing old, travelling and meeting potential life partners at every turn; their sound is often compared to Simon and Garfunkel (it's folky, it's two blokes singing softly) but more subtly reflects the changing interests of Bøe, and his bandmate, Erlend Øye, the better known of the pair, over the last decade.
(Ironically, the space station's demands on the shuttle fleet mean that essential repairs to the Hubble, which will require a shuttle mission, may have to be postponed).The ASCB report also casts doubt on the merits of growing crystals in space, for use in pharmaceutical research.
"There's so much around," explained Margaret Noon, 48, of Scotch Plains, the leader of the 200-member Northern New Jersey Chapter of Slow Food USA, part of an international organization that advocates the merit of locally grown food.
The number of merit visas could grow to 250,000 over time.
The descriptive analysis illustrates that this research area evolves and strongly grows and, thus, merits further scientific awareness.
