The president hasn't put out a specific proposal for what a merit-based immigration system would look like, and the White House did not respond to a request for more information on any such plan.
What is a merit badge, after all, next to winning a challenge to come up with a campaign for a Trump-branded product?
Curators who embrace extravagant backdrops will also mount more bare-bones shows if they feel that is what a collection merits.
What merit to a historical account of a presidency so soon after the event – in fact, while events are still spinning (Bush doesn't exit the White House until January)?
"A lot of women are called such names when they stand up for what they merit, while a man would just be called aggressive," she says.
To limit inaccurate or frivolous content, Wikipedia has "notability" and "verifiability" standards for what merits an article - meaning a person is notable only if he or she has received "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
But then he starts asking questions: What merits a name?
Rather than merit measuring what an individual knows (which even then, standardized tests have not proven to be highly effective), we should be examining ways in which collaboration and group knowledge can and should be used more effectively in defining academic achievement.
She argues that the current state of high-stakes testing has created a skewed sense of what defines merit.
The complicated, disturbing, hugely entertaining work that gave rise to that idea is what actually merits a movie adaptation.
