Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sununu, who could be counted on to recognize a quid pro quo when he saw one. "The Administration promised to put antiabortion people all around Sullivan," complains Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. "They made sure he wouldn't exercise independent judgment." Hatch brushes off all of the protests. "Bush has said he stands for certain principles," the Senator says. "So why should he appoint someone who is completely antithetical to his viewpoint...
Three-martini lunches do not produce any such "public good." In fact, because alcohol impairs judgment and decreases productivity, its consumption is really a "public bad." Surely the government should not subsidize a business practice that makes business less productive and efficient...
...conference ever entered into our decision. Following the mid-September request for the use of our space, Associate Dean Timothy Cross spoke with Nancy Murray, conference organizer, who provided routine information regarding the purpose of the event, date, time, size of the anticipated audience, etc. She also offered her judgment, unsolicited, that the conference was likely to be controversial and felt that we would probably need to discuss a security presence beyond our normal levels...
...Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...
...Gorbachev established a joint Soviet-Polish commission whose mandate included the reopening of the Katyn case. Since then, the Soviets have delayed a formal verdict. But officials, eager to clear the air before Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's arrival in Moscow later this month, want to hasten a judgment. Applauding Gorbachev for making a "historic break with Stalinism," Brzezinski offered a face-saving way out. "Many Soviet people were also victims of Stalinism," he said. "So the acknowledgment of these crimes should lead to reconciliation, not to hatred...