Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alien culture and political power, while mired in hopeless poverty, the Celtic natives developed habits and a frame of mind that characterized them in the New World as lazy and improvident. Signs reading, "No Irish need apply," that freely hung around Boston, reflected more than prejudice, but the honest judgement of employers who could only use national origin to screen for stable workers...
While the men and women in Byerly Hall may worry a bit about the effects of the preliminary Klitgaard report, they want to hold off final judgement until the final report is released. But even if the next version is wanted down, it may not overshadow any negative results of the preliminary draft. On the other hand, the lure of the Harvard name may reign supreme--provided the admissions office continues to disassociate itself from Klitgaard's opinions. "Students that plan to apply to Harvard," the Stuyvesant High School counselor insists, "will apply anyway...
...those four male appointments, the professor says, three clearly "had the edge" in quality over competing female candidates--but in the fourth case, "the department wanted somehow a junior edition of itself." Oleg Grabar, chairman of the department, explains that the appointment in question reflected "a kind of judgement of the facts that the man was chosen was more interesting and imaginative" than the woman over whom he was chosen. He declines to identify either candidate but says that the charges that departments reproduce themselves have "some truth" in relation to gender...
...Crimson tied it up yet again in the top of the seventh, scoring its eight run on a walk, a single, and a judgement from a benevolent umpire. Allard walked with one away, advancing to second on Chuck Marshall's grounder to third. Vinnie Martelli singled sharply to right, but Allard, trying to score on the hit, was apparently cut down by a strong throw in the plate...
...however: the name Somoza, which meant political and economic power in Nicaragua the four decades before the 1979 revolution, is misspelled on all their publicity announcements. Such an error indicates an ignorance of Nicaraguan affairs on the part of the sponsors that calls into question their credibility and judgement in publicly presenting a political viewpoint on the situation. Every individual or organization has the right to entertain a person privately, but public sponsorship of political figures and the legitimization that accompanies it should be left to more informed student organizations. Henning Gutmann...