Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voters are more discerning than the critics of ``hyperdemocracy'' (themselves often elites fearful of displacement) have been warning. ``On most major issues we've dealt with in the past 50 years,'' pollster George Gallup Sr. noted in 1984, ``the public was more likely to be right -- based on the judgment of history -- than the legislatures or Congress...
...shattered pieces of the Microsoft settlement, Bingaman must be wondering whether she's been promising more than she can deliver. The wife of Senator Jeff Bingaman, a three-term Democrat from New Mexico, Bingaman was once a plaintiff's lawyer who could claim a record-making $1 billion judgment against a foreign uranium cartel. By the end of last year, she had initiated more than 33 civil antitrust cases, compared with an average of 10 a year for her Republican predecessors. But the legal theory of antitrust has been changing. In federal courts, where Republican-appointed judges predominate, pursuing large...
...Baxter, a Reagan-era antitrust chief. "But she's going to have egg on her face if she loses a lot of them." Then again, her Microsoft case was undone by a judge who thought she moved too timidly. "We filed exactly the case that in my best professional judgment deserved to be filed," she told TIME last month. "Anyone else want to sue Microsoft...
...shot down his theory when it ruled in a similar case that judges had no power to oversee impeachments. Many antitrust lawyers expect his Microsoft ruling to get the same brush-off from a higher court. But if Sporkin was overreaching, he may also have been correct in his judgment that the original settlement let the computer giant off too easily. It won't be the first time he's proved that loose cannons can be straight shooters...
...week he was offering a more spirited defense of his nominee. But key support from such Democratic Senators as Edward Kennedy and Patrick Leahy has been noticeably tepid, and Joseph Biden grumped publicly that Clinton should withdraw Foster's nomination; then he flip-flopped and said he would reserve judgment...