"Game of the District Messenger Boy," reads the faded box, "or Merit Rewarded".
"I refuse to believe the trade unions of today's Italy still want to defend [a] million layabouts against the 60m members of the public who want to see merit rewarded and skivers punished," he said this month.
"We've introduced a term system for researchers in our national labs, and increased merit rewards for people with good ideas," said Nobuaki Kawakami, director of the ministry's division of planning and evaluation.
Maybe you think she really should have won the Oscar that year, and that, therefore, her victory was a sign of virtue and merit rewarded, rather than an example of the Oscars' usual preference for white actors in stories about white people.
Games such as Game of the District Messenger Boy, or Merit Rewarded, Messenger Boy, Game of the Telegraph Boy, and The Office Boy allowed players to emulate the successful capitalist.
The visiting side merited reward and thought they had claimed the extra half-hour when in the confused aftermath of a long throw, Jordon Ibe calmly squared the ball across the penalty area and Dan Gosling, granted too much space by a dithering Davide Zappacosta, whipped a fine first-time shot beyond Willy Caballero.
The visitors, in contrast, with their raucous support bellowing for the removal of Mike Ashley, would rightly point to their own dominance up to the moment Clark was penalised for a shirt tug on the Belgian early in the second period as evidence they merited reward.
Nothing captures that spirit of merit and reward better than Clarke, who prepared his series victory plan with the bloodless dedication and care of a philandering husband.
Equally depressing, in its implicit rejection of the notion that merit deserves reward, was the cynical appeal made to the lower castes and the Muslims by V.P. Singh's Janata Dal Party.Yet India contains not just the forces of fragmentation, but also reserves of strength.
