Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been tested, Wall Street won't ever try it for just $5 billion or $10 billion. It's got to go for $20 billion, $50 billion or $100 billion without knowing what will happen under certain market circumstances. They have the numbers, but they don't have either the judgment or the experience to understand them...
...Dave and Holly were starting to enjoy the show but I couldn't watch. Every time the plane cut its engine and began its dip, my legs twitched and I fled, helplessly, for a few yards. I was OD-ing on adrenaline. And I was beginning to question my judgment: why would I recklessly subject myself to the dangerous guiles of Nature, even for an afternoon...
Environmentalists respond that if the U.S. fails to act, the tiger will almost surely disappear in the wild. Noting that Taiwan and China have "been tried and convicted by CITES and the U.S.," Earth Island's LaBudde says, "A judgment of guilty with no penalty imposed hardly represents any deterrent." Thornton of the EIA agrees: "It is time for us to make it plain that we are not going to stand by and watch the last tiger disappear...
...does not charge the Clintons with wrongdoing, it names them as possible beneficiaries of illegal Madison transactions. For a regulatory body to disclose such a matter to any of the parties involved is a considerable departure from standard practice, to say nothing of a spectacular instance of bad political judgment...
...that paralyzes an Administration; 43 G.O.P. members promised that until the Senate banking committee holds hearings on the suspect meetings, they will block the Administration's nomination of Ricki Tigert to head the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. "You're asking for big, big trouble and showing some stunningly bad judgment when you start mixing politics with law enforcement," clucked Senate minority leader Bob Dole...