Word: judgment
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Nevertheless, Khasbulatov insisted as last week began that Yeltsin had violated the constitution when he claimed "special rule" over the country pending a national referendum on April 25. Khasbulatov, a former professor of economics, demanded a judgment by the Constitutional Court. Even though the decree Yeltsin said he had signed had not been published, the court obliged, ruling that the President could not legally declare one-man rule or call a referendum, though he could ask the nation for a vote of confidence...
...opposed to the churches using some marketing techniques, but I fear what is happening is that marketing techniques are beginning to use the church. We can't target groups we want for the church simply by locating points of desire. Somewhere there's got to be some judgment about whether these desires are appropriate." He rejects the notion that the job of ministers is to keep people happy and the pews filled. "A pastor has to shake things up," he says. "The point isn't to accommodate self-centeredness but to attack it. If you don't, then the Gospel...
...Wade and a consistent foe of the constitutional right to abortion, opposed broad use of affirmative action, favored greater accommodation between church and state and regularly sided with police on law- and-order issues. President Clinton promptly promised to find a top notch replacement with "good judgment" and "a big heart...
During the 1980s, the Whitney was content to take dictation from dealers and collectors, so that its Biennials tended passively to reflect the fashions of the art market without showing more than an occasional glimmer of independent judgment. The 1993 version is different and scaled to a chastened art world. The sour taste of the collapsed '80s star system has galvanized the "new" Whitney, under its new director David A. Ross, into a veritable transport of social concern. This Biennial, assembled by a team of curators under the supervision of Elisabeth Sussman, is not a survey but a theme show...
...move that has the advantage of stimulating private investment without requiring public funding, Clinton also proposed a process that would ease both the challenge of questioning the judgment of federal bank examiners and the appraisal requirements on real estate offered as collateral for small-business loans. Bankers hailed the innovations. But some consumer groups remain wary of an industry that last turned regulatory relief into the S&L disaster...