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  2. List of academic awards - Wikipedia

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    Academic merit Mexico: Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) Ibero-American scholars in recognition of advances in science and/or technology United States and Canada: William Riley Parker Prize: Modern Language Association: Outstanding article published in PMLA, the association's primary journal

  3. Meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth or social class. [1]

  4. Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and ...

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    The Award of Merit is bestowed by the Association for Information Science and Technology. [1] It is an annual prize to an individual for a lifetime of achievement that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced.

  5. Pay-for-Performance (Federal Government) - Wikipedia

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    The major provisions in the act included, but were not limited to, performance appraisals for all employees, merit pay on a variety of levels (but focusing on managerial levels), and modifications for dealing with poor performers. [3] This merit pay system was a break in the long tradition of automatic salary increases based on length of service.

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Academy Award for Technical Achievement - Wikipedia

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    The Technical Achievement Award is one of three Scientific and Technical Awards given from time to time by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (The other two awards are the Scientific and Engineering Award and the Academy Award of Merit.) [1] The Technical Achievement Award is an honorary award that is given annually to those whose particular technical accomplishments have ...

  8. List of state achievement tests in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary may include synonyms and an index, but must not include definition of words. Test administrators or proctors are also not allowed to read aloud to the student any of the questions, passages, prompts, or answer choices in the English language or their first language during the test. Georgia: Georgia Department of Education

  9. Merit system - Wikipedia

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    Rank was determined by merit, through the civil service examinations, and education became the key for social mobility. [2] After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the nine-rank system was established during the Three Kingdoms period. The concept of a merit system spread from China to British India during the 17th century, and then into continental ...