Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since it was not explicated, it was my judgment that this was subject to my evaluation, much like the vast majority of issues associated with the running of Academy Homes Summer Youth Enrichment Program," she wrote...
...Harvard, the customer is not always right. Sure, you pay a lot of money to come here, but that doesn't mean you make the rules. The faculty and staff here simply know much more about college life and teaching than you do. You have to respect their judgment...
Arguments about assignments, curriculum or grades just leave a bad taste in the mouths of your teachers and fellow students. Do you believe that your judgment is more fair than your teaching fellow's or professor's? Too bad--you haven't been accorded the power in this situation, nor do you have the appropriate experience to contest...
That is a judgment of supply and demand. Emotionally, the transplant touched more ambiguous chords. "My ethical meter says this is O.K. and should be done. My gut-feeling meter says, 'Wow, this is very troubling.' It's in the Ripley's 'Believe It or Not' category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless...
...federal investigation into the blaze on a Colorado mountain in July that claimed the lives of 14 firefighters concluded that they and their supervisors committed crucial mistakes and ignored standard safety procedures. Among the errors in judgment cited were failures to plot an escape route and to guard against extremely dry vegetation and volatile winds...