Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenure case--which mixes the political and the personal, ideology with research. This week's action on the Dalton case--which was based on the written opinions of more than a dozen scholars in her specialty, the personal testimony of four Harvard law professors and the critical judgement of five preeminent legal authorities--is no different...
This is hogwash. Whether a candidate runs on a platform that is anti-apartheid or anti-pu pu platter, whether his or her campaign is political or apolitical, there is an implicit understanding between voters and their choice that the former trusts the latter's judgement in volatile issues like this one regarding the Fly Club. By definition, all governments are inherently political. That the Undergraduate Council identifies itself as a "student government" at the beginning of every schoolyear (when it encourages students to run for office) underscores this truism...
...employees should not be forced to hear the administration's side from the people who are responsible for hiring them, approving their wage increases and passing judgement on their work. Supervisors cannot just put forth information, because they give that information an unfair advantage and a threatening aura...
Gitlin is a skilled sociologist, an accomplished and witty storyteller, and a scrupulous historian. He inspires confidence in his work that is rare in Sixties chronicles; like the Arab-Israeli conflict, the period seems to exert a strange, objectivity-stripping influence on those who would describe or pass judgement upon it. Most impressively, perhaps, he is able to look back honestly on the student movement and his own involvement in it without losing his sense of humor and his compassion...
...allowing the city to seize the property upon which the college has long desired to build its new campus, the judgement clears the way for Emerson's possible move to Lawrence, said James R. Ball, spokesman for the Lawrence City Development Department...