Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before voters can pass judgment on those issues, the immediate question is, How can Powell enter the presidential race...
...threatening human lives and by putting the Times and the Post in a position where they are forced to choose between publishing a document and indirectly harming human life, the Unabomber has tried to coerce the judgment of editors at the papers. This sort of coercion--even if it comes at the cost of life--cannot be succumbed to because at the loss of our freedoms, we all begin to lose the value of our lives...
...leadership of the chorus seems to have succumbed to a kind of watered-down "feminism" that can all-too-easily be deployed to perpetuate male dominance. To devalue a talented woman because it feels more empowering to be led by a man is a sign of immaturity and poor judgment--forgiveable in the young, but deadly when manipulated by a powerful institution such as Harvard. Marjories Wechsler Member...
...rush to judgment on this issue began in 1992, when New Jersey enacted its "family-cap" law. Since Aug. 1, 1993, women on welfare who have another child are denied additional cash assistance, an amount that varies from $64 to $102 a month depending on family size. Profound "positive" effects were claimed for the new law almost immediately. The key analysis was conducted by June O'Neill, who now directs the Congressional Budget Office. O'Neill, who had been hired by New Jersey to defend a lawsuit aimed at overturning the law, found "strong evidence that the family cap ... generated...
...government agent in Tennessee. A jury in Memphis wasted little time ruling that the images--which included pictures of women having sex with animals--were obscene. But his case raised the tricky constitutional question of which locale's community standards should have been used to make that judgment: Tennessee's Bible Belt, California's Bay Area or the virtual community of cyberspace...