Word: judgemental
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...capacity of Government to assess problems accurately and to take into account people's judgement of their own needs is essential to effective social reform. More than ever such sensitivity is required to foster respect for our institutions. We are all aware that some approaches to social reform do more harm than good. Effective government action requires a deep awareness of how that action will be seen and evaluated by our increasingly active and informed citizens...
What makes the $13.5 million judgement especially remarkable is that Stern won it mainly through pleading what he termed psychic impairment. At first the Pittston attorneys characterized this as mere "puff and blow," until witnesses' breakdowns during hearings convinced Judge K.K. Hall that this was not so. Teams led by prominent psychologists (including Harvard's Robert Coles) found anxiety symptoms in all survivors of the flood, even those who had made it to safety. They watched friends and relatives carried out of their arms, or pulled older folks out of the water with bodies smashed, to have them die from...
...decisions involving the military--shows just how flawed this logic is. After all who knows more about how to wage war than the generals, and yet recent experience tells us that the generals, so itching to launch their projects, need to be regulated by others who can exercise better judgement in the public's favor...
...CARE ABOUT Miss Kael's criticism as literature," John Leonard, the facile New York Times book critic, is quoted as saying on the inside flap of Reeling, the latest collection of movie reviews from Pauline Kael. Leonard's judgement may strike many as over-blown, or at least as a case of the pot calling the kettle sterling. But people gossip and debate more today about critics and commentators than about the events they cover. Brendan Gill cashed in on this new phenomenon with "Here at the New Yorker," as did Timothy Crouse with "Boys on the Bus." This summer...
...save up the three to seven dollars a week necessary to pay for the books by the end of the summer. Southwestern instructs its salesmen to approach only those who are able to buy them if they want them. Again, the individual student is expected "to exercise his own judgement," and that includes deciding whose order he would feel good about filling...