Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure on the public treasuries is such, she warns, that an increase in federal funds to private institutions is unlikely in the near future. Correspondingly, Hufstedler takes a pragmatic tack, revealing the common sense judgement her associates commend. "People want the federal role to increase all over the place when it comes to the matter of having federal funds that can be directed by the universities and colleges," she says. "In short, what a lot of people want is perfectly human--'please send me a check but no strings." Well, you can't have it both ways...
MULTIPLYING on campuses from Cambridge to Madison, the big red-and-white buttons glint like badges of honor. They attest to the wearer's rare intellectual discernment in recognizing the merit of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). The Anderson fan knows he is showing unusual judgement and independent-mindedness because every major media commentator has told him so. Numerous quotations from favorable reviews decorate the Illinois Republican's leaflets as if they were ads for a new movie or bestseller; one expects to read, "compelling... I couldn't put him down'--James Reston" or "the sleeper of the season...
...United States is Eurocentric. We are taught that the West is the seat of civilization, that Western society is the most "developed." According to Western "standards" the non-Western world is "barbaric," "primitive," "savage," "native" and "exotic." When they look at Chile and call it underdeveloped, obviously a value-judgement is being made. According to Western standards of development, Chile is underdeveloped. However, according to Third World criteria, the West is "uncivilized...
...that Treasury Secretary G. William Miller's onetime charge, Textron Inc., bribed foreign officials. "I wouldn't pass judgment on whether or not he knew or whether he should have known," Connally said. "That's something that I don't have the information on which to base an informed judgement...
Critics argue that, of all the Republican candidates, Connally has the least right to stand in judgement of another man's past. The question of Connally's guilt in soliciting "illegal gratuities" from the Associate Milk Producers Inc. during his tenure as Treasury Secretary has not yet been laid to rest. A jury found Big John innocent on two counts of accepting $10,000 gifts;, but the other five counts of perjury, for which the Justice Department had documented evidence showing he had lied to a federal grand jury, were dropped as a matter of course. Connally proudly declares...