Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair to make the judgement that tenure is awarded on the basis of a person's ability to communicate--as a researcher and as a teacher. There is a prevalent feeling among students in this college that it is the person's capabilities as a researcher, as a writer and academic that dominate the tenure decision. I think it can be agreed that this idea is not without factual basis. Often, it is this aspect of academia that lends itself to Harvard's prestige, to its reputation as an institution of great learning and to increasing its financial resources. Should...
Most Houses have an ad hoc admissions committee led by the masters, which screens approximately 25 applicants for the guest suites each year. With fewer than five spaces available, the group must make numerous judgement calls about prospective guests' value to their House...
...spirit and also dangerous. Ippolito and other members' comments that the incident was not serious were irresponsible. One fourth of the initiates visited UHS last Tuesday. Five were forced to stay overnight for observation because, said one doctor, they had drunk enough that they could have died. The judgement of staging such an initiation in the first place is questionable, but the officers were certainly negligent in not sensing the seriousness of the situation and stopping it sooner...
Bower: Let me interject a major qualification about whether people outside the industry shouldn't think about the question of what the industrial structure in the United States should be. All the mistakes come from people outside the activity trying to make a judgement about what we need. But I think this destruction in anti-trust would almost certainly be a good idea. I think we ought to look hard at our anti-trust policies to see if we can make them better...
Some critics complain that the series offers no analysis and so does not give the subject matter a proper structure and perspective. But when tackling difficult moral questions on film (Stanley Kramer's Judgement at Nuremberg) letting the audience draw their own conclusions may just be the best device...