Eyebrows were raised tonight when judges for one of the UK's most important book prizes failed to find enough biographies of merit to fill their shortlist.
Truly, permaculture contains enough badges of eco-merit to fill a Girl Scout sash.
The double-flowered hybrid called Minnesota Snowflake is shorter, about 6 feet, and has the merit of staying well filled out all the way to the ground.
New Orleanians adore these packaged, deep-fried pies, endlessly debating the merits of the lemon filling versus the apple, or whether the pies should be eaten microwaved or cold.
More than 18.4 million students are expected to enroll in college this year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and if you extrapolate, you can imagine all of them with their parents, wandering around in other big-chain stores around the country at the same moment, discussing the merits of feather fill versus down quilting.
While the merits of banning goodie bags filled with Reese's and Skittles seem obvious — especially at a time when the risk of childhood diabetes is high for American children — many parents draw the line at cupcakes.
If this were the case, of course, there'd be no merit to the popular metaphor of a bathtub filling faster than it's draining (see Dot Earth and National Geographic, e.g).
Then consider the merit of her effort.
Certainly, a merit of the model.
The value of figure of merit is also calculated to understand its variation with filling ratios and heat loads.
We get tired of hearing that we are not qualified enough or that we don't have enough merit when plenty of those jobs were filled because of who people know and not a merit-based system".
