Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College that "one criminal threat looms larger than the others: the theft or diversion of radioactive materials in Russia and Eastern Europe." Organized-crime groups, he warned, would try to obtain such materials "to be offered for sale to the highest bidder." The Russian daily Izvestia makes the same judgment. It reported recently that more than 5,500 criminal gangs were operating in Russia, and "the lion's share of their operations involve stealing fissionable nuclear materials and smuggling them...
Although Human Resources' present policy of lump sum payments is obviously the easiest and fastest way to close the books on an older staff member who is no longer needed or wanted, in my judgment it is in Harvard's unlighted self-interest to move to a policy that permits multi-year payments and doubles the benefit to the employee, at no added cost to Harvard, except the administrative expense involved...
...hesitant to brand a final judgment on Shaham's playing, given that it has yet to be tested seriously outside of his specialty of technical bravura. But, his newly minted exclusive partnership with Deutsche- Grammophon has certainly had an auspicious start...
Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood's most daring and extravagant auteur? Not bloody likely. An '80s-style artist-brigand, Cameron makes ripe allegories, often about the search for a redeemer, that are both personal and popular. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day all took big risks, with film form and finance, that paid off. Cameron is a daredevil director: he goes skydiving without a chute and lands in clover...
Although no one admitted it at the time, the hearing was decided at that % moment. The defense's main strategy was dashed. The prosecution had tipped at least part of its hand, and the judge had tipped hers. After such a rousing affirmation of the police and their judgment, it was unlikely that she would consign their case to legal limbo. From then on, Clark's presentation of her witnesses seemed less like that of a prosecutor fighting for her case than of a victorious poker player laying down a royal flush, card by card...