41. School acceptance, most jobs and living accommodations remain influenced by classic communist merit systems and political connections. 42. Right now, the chancellor and the union are negotiating over a merit system in their long-overdue contract talks. 43. "Why don't we stop kidding ourselves that what we're doing is a merit system ? " he said. 44. The house system has an awards and merits system which worked to reward both individual and collective efforts. 45. The Merit Systems Protection Board and its Office of Special Counsel are responsible for enforcement of the Hatch Act. 46. Instead of nurturing a merit system , the central bank embraced a system of seniority, similar to other bureaucratic agencies. 47. He was Deputy and Acting Special Counsel at the United States Merit Systems Protection Board from 1981 to 1982. 48. But since there is no merit system within the bureaucracy, what incentive do civil servants have to be achievers? 49. This system will also be compatible with the points of merit system that is also on the near horizon. 50. To enforce the merit system and the judicial system, the law also created the United States Civil Service Commission.