Both officers implied that if they merited losing their jobs over their befriending a former deputy editor at The News of the World, Neil Wallis — dining with him and allowing him to earn nearly $40,000 for work as a media consultant at Scotland Yard — so, too, might Mr. Cameron, over his long-term relationship with Mr. Coulson, who held an even more senior post at the paper.
Founded as a jewelry company, Maritz (pronounced Merits) lost its consumer market in the Depression.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has turned the trick of winning ugly into an art form - but there is no merit in losing ugly and that is exactly what his side did as Paris St-Germain deservedly dismissed them from the Champions League.
A culture where advancement depends on political affiliation rather than merit will lose bright people to societies where talent is what counts.
When promotions and big bonuses are awarded based on connections and relationships, without regard to individual merit, companies lose credibility and set the stage for an exodus of real talent.
Shakespeare provided material for both sides: Cassio described reputation as "the immortal part of myself", while Iago dismissed it as "an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving .Today's management-theory industry has no time for such equivocation.
Where did merit get lost in the equation, I wonder, and why do Americans fall for the 'dynasty trap'?
"I'm opposed to the principle of merit pay, and losing money to a new contract," he said.
And Hillary, who is at long last in a job that she earned on her own merits, has lost that irritating question mark she used to carry around above her head like a thunder cloud: What is Hillary owed because of what she gave up, and went through, for Bill?
Without losing the merits of model-based control, a simple and easy-tuned IMC structure is readily carried over to the dynamic PLS control framework.
The presence of sleep apnea impairing weight loss has been recognized previously [ 24] and our observation that hypercholesterolemia improves the chances of the patient losing weight merits further study.
