Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punitive damage awards handed down by California's notably proconsumer juries, the Egan judgment shocked the insurance industry. It fears that juries everywhere will begin handing out huge awards in bad faith cases, despite the industry's complaint that genuine cases of wrongdoing are rare and reflect only isolated mistakes. Indeed more than 20 states in the past ten years have ruled that juries can award punitive damages in bad faith cases...
...concerned with commerce than with quality. But in some ways she is as divided as the texts she writes about. "All of us children of the 20th century know, or should know," she writes, "that there are no absolutes in human affairs." Today's textbooks do, fairly accurately, reflect that knowledge and mirror the confused national mood. The collapse of American confidence reflected in the histories since the 1960s is the product of the pluralism of values that FitzGerald somewhat ironically espouses...
These tensions reflect the fact that Jews have overcome discrimination well enough to become, in the view of some blacks, part of the establishment from which blacks are still mostly locked out. Beyond that, there are historical reasons: Jews once took a leading role in the civil rights movement, and in due course blacks took over that leadership. Such transitions are difficult-for both parties. Now blacks are moving into a new area of assertiveness, foreign policy, and that too, as last week's fusillades demonstrated, will doubtless mean fresh frictions-and not just for Jews...
...History of the United States, the closest that the new economists have to such a tome is a 651-page text, Macroeconomics, by Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer, 35, both professors at M.I.T. Published in 1977, it has become the largest selling advanced economics text. The authors' central thesis reflects the new economists' nagging uncertainty about the omnipotence of their own profession. They contend that the complex computer models used to predict the effects of specific economic policies or actions simply do not-and cannot-reflect the way the real world behaves. "What will be the magnitude of reaction...
...states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, but some flatly refused. Maryland's Senator Paul Sarbanes selected his former law partner; another, North Carolina's Robert Morgan, nominated his campaign manager. Carter has also diversified the bench to make sure the judges' backgrounds and attitudes more closely reflect the population's. When he took office, only 1% were female and only 5% were black or Hispanic. So far, a third of his appointments are women or members of a minority group, or both, like Amalya Kearse, 42, a black woman. She will sit on a U.S. Court of Appeals...