Merits

The Civic Organizations loved the extra coverage and promotion of their events, Volunteers were thrilled to receive the Hero Rewards--actually called "Merits"--and participating Merchants recognized the value of pledging their "off hours" capacity to those who've gone and bettered the community.

Mike Ragogna: myLocal Heroes: An Interview With Fairfield's Scott Morris Mike Ragogna 2011

The Civic Organizations loved the extra coverage and promotion of their events, Volunteers were thrilled to receive the Hero Rewards--actually called "Merits"--and participating Merchants recognized the value of pledging their "off hours" capacity to those who've gone and bettered the community.

Mike Ragogna: myLocal Heroes: An Interview With Fairfield's Scott Morris Mike Ragogna 2011

Charlie Brooker's The National Anthem (an "unusual" blackmail threat for the prime minister), and 15 Million Merits (X Factor distraction culture pushed to extremes) – co-written with Konnie Huq – grabbed the headlines, but The Entire History Of You (by Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong) is worth catching too.

Catch up TV Guide: From Black Mirror to Poirot 2012

And, appropriately, in 15 Million Merits, the second part of Charlie Brooker's murky look at both the modern world and the inside of his own head, characters accumulate credits mainly by pedalling exercise bicycles in order to achieve the ultimate goal: an appearance on an X Factor-like talent competition.

TV review: Black Mirror; Piers Morgan's Life Stories: Peter Andre; This is Justin Bieber 2011

Not one person outside of Congress has shown this to be anything else than a financial train wreck ... but Libs think we can pay for things with "Social Merits" and imaginary cost savings ... leave it to the Left to misidentify a problem thereby ensuring the wrong solution ... vwrtb

Reid to Senate: Get ready to work overtime on health care 2009

Merits: Awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Merit and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur decorations.

News Chief Pushes Multimedia Amy Ma 2011

Merits aside, both creations rose from the table as 2,000-page laws.

Obama's Cloud Economy Daniel Henninger 2011

Some of us blog about our lives, our families, and the world (The Common Scold, Ipse Dixit, Part-time Law Mom, Legal Antics, Merits of the Case, Bag and Baggage).

Women Lawyers--Back on Track 2009

Merits aside, both creations rose from the table as 2,000-page laws.

Obama's Cloud Economy Daniel Henninger 2011

Later I watched Fifteen Million Merits, the second episode of Charlie Brooker's magnificent Black Mirror with an amazing central performance by Daniel Kaluuya, to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Sunday night, which takes The X Factor culture to its logically porno conclusion, and I wondered if sometimes you lose your cynicism as you get older and have children.

OMG! We're going to The X Factor! 2011