And if the business sometimes has to be run short-handed, the best way to ensure that customers do not suffer is to make certain the hands available are helpful ones.The same goes for better advancement opportunities, merit-based pay and language lessons: all help to build loyalty in a climate where disloyalty is more commonly rewarded.
As Powell thought they might, the Chamber has obviously found that "the opportunity merits the necessary effort".
He admitted that the company could look to raise more funds next year if it sees the right growth opportunities to merit it.
Instead of job security and guarantees, they want opportunity and merit pay.
It provides reassurance, especially in a world that seems to disdain us, that our country is indeed special, a beacon of hope, and a land of opportunity where merit wins out, and that these are not just sentiments mouthed by politicians or written in civics books.
Their opportunity was merited.
"This is without doubt an opportunity which merits serious consideration, without the defensiveness and usual distractions that often stand in the way of the pursuit of shareholder value".
Apparently, privilege has no place in journalism, where the playing field is even and journalists are given opportunities based on merit and hard work alone.
Last year, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's richest man who became prime minister for the first time in 1994, was voted out for not keeping his promises for American-style growth and opportunities based on merit.
If societies do not bring equal opportunities based on merit and ability, independent of race, gender or social origin, then today's social and economic status may be transmitted from parents to their offspring.
And this year there was a big opportunity to award merit while also acknowledging mass popularity and uniting the generations.
