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No one is mandating merit pay.

I wouldn't put much merit in anything Barry says. His track history proves that. But I think, deep down, he wants the whole thing.

I would think this is a long shot, trying to get the Court of Appeals to stop this trial. The defense has a better chance of having a stay granted than winning on the merits of the claim.

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world

We'll be seeking to exonerate Alan Brogan. We feel what happened did not merit a red card.

When lies must be told, they should be told by subordinate officials. At no point should the president be asked to lend himself to the cover operation. There seems to me merit in Secretary Rusk's suggestion that someone other than the president make the final decision and do so in his absence -- someone whose head can later be placed on the block if things go terribly wrong.

When judges are given flexibility to consider the full merits of each case, they are likely to impose stiff penalties for serious offenses, but will distinguish these from cases in which the defendant is less culpable or less of a threat to public safety.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

She alone has stood up for issues that are important to this country and important to the world. We're not here to judge the merits of the case; we're here to support our sister.

I think the factual record is going to show very clearly that Microsoft's prices are actually lower than most of our major competitors. Lower than IBM , lower than the Macintosh operating system. In fact, the judge's own findings of fact said that IBM charges 2 1/2 times as much as Microsoft charges for Windows '98. So it's very hard to see how this case has any merit whatsoever.