Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary fellow caught up in an extraordinary situation -- a situation which I had little control over." In fact, Hazelwood is no ordinary fellow, and one could argue that he should have exercised much more control over many aspects of his life. But those are not reasons to rush to judgment about the events that led to the fiasco in Prince William Sound...
...Delaware Supreme Court will have the final say in the matter, but a number of legal experts said they doubted that Allen's ruling would be overturned. The Supreme Court, they noted, has generally upheld Delaware's "business judgment rule," and has been even more forceful than the Chancery Court in giving corporate directors broad freedom to set long-range policy for their companies. Stanford University law professor Ronald Gilson disagrees with the ruling because he feels shareholders should have more rights in takeover battles, but he doubts the decision will be overturned: "If the Paramount arguments were not persuasive...
...superspook's colleagues were more concerned about his judgment. A joint CIA-State Department team dispatched to Moscow in response to his report found that the problems he had identified did not exist. The suspect window had been nailed shut, and 20 years of Russian bird droppings had accumulated on it. An examination of the walls quickly showed that the flues had not been enlarged. Still, the White House would not forget this early, grim warning that the KGB had burrowed into the heart of the Moscow embassy...
...live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin," wrote Chesterton. Science makes a more severe judgment. It calls living in the present psychotic. Not happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care living in the present, but the real thing. Some individuals by reason of accident or disease (generally alcoholism) suffer from what is called Korsakoff's psychosis: they have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within...
...Giamatti was wearing his "investigator hat" when he sent the letter, not his "final decision- maker hat." In any event, Hoynes argued, baseball proceedings were less formal than legal ones, and the commissioner of this private organization was entitled to "depart from the rules of evidence if in his judgment the cause of justice will be served...