In my experience, when money manager hiring is based on political pull rather than merit, performance suffers.

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"The backroom staff worked hard to get the snow of the pitch and the performance didn't merit the hard work we put in to get the game on, " said Butcher.

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Merit provides high-performance networking solutions to Michigan's public universities, colleges, K-12 organizations, libraries, state government, healthcare, and other non-profit organizations.

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There's also a 15% merit payment depending on performance.

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The researchers from the universities of Missouri and New Mexico State found that there was little relationship between merit pay and subsequent job performance, suggesting that individual awards did not provide incentives to work more effectively.

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He introduced merit pay for public workers and performance metrics for state agencies.

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This is because the NFL Draft is a projection of how a player will perform over his next ten years, not a merit badge issued for conspicuous college performance.

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The draft however, is not a merit badge handed out for conspicuous college performance, it is a projection as to how a player will perform over the next ten years.

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Not quite, the Lumia 900 has its strengths, coming mainly in the form of optics, but it's the overall package and performance that's simply too plain, too ordinary, too dependable to merit the haughty flagship halo it aspires to emanate.

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"Boeing didn't manage to beat Northrop Grumman in a single measure of merit, " she said on Monday, explaining that Boeing's poor past performance and dubious cost estimates hurt its chances of beating its rivals.

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