Word: judgment
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...Judgment Call...
...media talent and ambition such as Sheery's are almost the norm. In a tremendously competitive business, ethical responsibility and even editorial supervision can too easily fall by the wayside while a reporter is intent on the big, prizewinning story. Wetlaufer describes this flaw, this loss of persepective and judgment that sometimes occurs in journalism, precisely...
...along some harmless gossip about the Bush kids. What mattered was that Bush had found a way to throw the wily Perot on the defensive. "The public found out," said Robert Teeter, Bush's campaign chairman, that Perot "is not the kind of person who has the character, the judgment and the temperament to be President...
Time will tell how successful the College's newrace relations initiatives are, Ali said. "I'mhappy to see the College responding, but I thinkmost students will withhold judgment until we seethe results of this restructuring," Ali said...
Take, for example, Truman's crucial decision to allow the first and last wartime uses of the atom bomb. McCullough peremptorily dismisses the critics, saying that it was for Truman a simple judgment that use of the Bomb would eliminate the need to invade Japan and thus would, and did, save lives. That is probably true. But the juncture between personality and politics that is both interesting and troubling, though not so much to McCullough, is that Truman took this fateful step almost by default, with little agonizing or moral debate or formal consideration...