Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to make a moral and intellectual judgment on someone who compares Jews to Nazis," Peretz said this summer. "This is not a matter of someone being just pro-Palestinian, a legitimate public position. When [Gore] saw this, he had to make a decision...
...looking for a candidate who has exhibited good leadership, who has a reputation for excellent judgment and who is a good manager," she said...
...examined the accidental downing of two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq. An earlier Air Force criminal inquiry brought charges against only one officer, and he was acquitted on all counts. A new report by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, cites two generals for poor judgment and failure to uphold Air Force standards; five airmen were barred from airborne assignments for at least three years. Twenty-six people died in the 1994 "friendly fire" tragedy, including 15 Americans...
Korean War flyer Marlon Green took Continental Airlines all the way to the Supreme Court in 1963, prompting a landmark judgment that opened commercial airlines to black pilots. It was 10 more years before a woman got that far, though during World War II 1,104 members of the Women's Air Service Pilots covered 60 million miles ferrying every type of fighter and cargo plane, as well as testing planes and pulling targets for apprentice artillery gunners. Then, in a landmark case against United Airlines filed by the Justice Department in 1973, a federal court found entrenched discrimination...
...well be," wrote Rosovsky, "that the most significant quality in educated persons is the informed judgment that enables them to make discriminating moral choices...