Players might sit longer than they want, but Carlesimo runs a merit-based system here.

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Instead, priority would shift to a merit-based system with points for things like education and language skills.

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AngelList is a more merit-based system than the typical angel-fundraising process, Ravikant says.

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In an interview with Stateline, a news service that looks at trends in state policy, a vice-president of Remy, Jay Pittas, argued that RTW legislation makes it easier to negotiate flexible work rules, and means that unions are more likely to agree to a merit-based system of employment rather than a one based on seniority.

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The new president pushed through the most sweeping education overhaul in seven decades, a potentially far-reaching reengineering of Mexico's deeply dysfunctional education system that calls for merit-based teacher hiring and promotion to replace a system in which union domination meant jobs were inherited and sold.

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The second merit is that the system is market-based.

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The basic principle of the system is to transfer teams between divisions based on merit -- in order to allow fluidity between the amateur leagues and the very top of the professional game.

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