Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussed, an option that school officials say only about 1.5% of parents exercise. Wayne Steward, 17, a gay senior, is convinced that such programs work toward eliminating prejudice. "When students don't understand what differences there may be ((among people))," he says, "they can let fear cloud their judgment...
...much stimulus does he need to inject, in terms of new spending and investment tax credits, and how big a price does he dare pay by increasing, however temporarily, the federal deficit? The President-elect allowed that the news "could have some impact on short-term judgment." Aides asserted, though, that they are still sure the economy will need jazzing up; the question is how much and how fast, and Clinton may not decide that until mid- January, after seeing how Christmas sales and other year-end figures...
...long as the President and Fellows, as well as the Overseers, are condemned to rely on management, evaluation, reports and advice of the Harvard Management Company (HMC) and that of the vice president for finance (who sit in judgment of their own miserable performance), they risk losing at least $1 million a day for Harvard...
...without being arrested. Although the decision applies to Miami, similar legal challenges to anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami case breaks ground. Miami officials say they'll appeal the decision, and Vice Mayor Miriam Alonso says the judgment is bad for the city: "Homelessness is not the best image for tourism or business or the community at large." Miami also faces a shot in the pocketbook: the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking damages for the homeless of as much as $50 million...
...years ago, such sympathy would have been unheard of. Children who killed their parents were the ultimate pariahs. Regarded as evil or mentally ill "bad seeds," they virtually always earned the harshest judgment of the public and the courts. Says psychologist and attorney Charles Patrick Ewing of the State University of New York at Buffalo: "We take the commandment to 'honor thy father and thy mother' very seriously. The implication is that you're supposed to honor your parents even if they abuse...