But also, Jenkins argues, it's not good policy on the merits to keep forking money over to solar and wind and geothermal producers without a real sense of larger aims.
"Our historic merit was to keep Italy within Western democracy and face down the largest Communist party in Europe," said Mino Martinazzoli, a former Christian Democratic defense minister in Italy and the man who ultimately dissolved the party in 1994.
Well, that's not the whole story: as David Segal explains in the New York Times, most law schools curve their grades, making it mathematically impossible for every student that earns a merit scholarship to keep it.
Then they would have to evaluate the merits of continuing to keep them alive at all.
Although the collection had a number of strong pieces, like the skirts and many of the tops, there is just not enough merit to the idea to keep you interested.
For all that, if we had a vote on May 6th, we would give it to Mr Sarkozy but not on his merits, so much as to keep out Mr Hollande.With a Socialist president, France would get one big thing right.
This past season, some state legislatures, including those of Kentucky, Florida and Louisiana, which control state university budgets, moved toward merit aid in an effort to keep the most promising students in their states.
Although I didn't get to keep the merit scholarships from Towson, tuition at the community college was half the cost.
There's no reason to keep arguing the merits of Bernie vs. Hillary.
"I suspect we will be pretty self-limiting in terms of who we take in, in large part because the people on our membership committee have produced a lot of movies and want to keep the academy a merit-based organization," he said.
