Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the past decade, Reed has shuttled from one job to another, leaving behind a string of charges that he absconded with company funds. Among his victims: an Illinois-based Japanese machine-tool company named Gomiya, which currently has a $600,000 judgment outstanding against him. Last month U.S. marshals seized Reed's van for Gomiya. Reed blames...
Less successful were attempts to convince voters that the party had shifted from radical socialism to more centrist policies. During the campaign, Kinnock dismissed some of his old positions as "errors of judgment," among them his insistence on unilateral nuclear disarmament and the renationalization of some state assets sold off by the Conservatives. Why the switch? "We lost three elections," said Jack Cunningham, Labour's campaign coordinator. "That is good enough reason to change policy." Many voters were left doubting Labour's sincerity. "Labour jettisoned its ideological baggage without acquiring any new ideas distinctively its own," says Anthony King...
...Real life" ordeals are more interesting today, and more bizarre, than anyone's fiction. But the phenomenon of ritual celebrity ordeal seems to foul up the judgment of journalists...
...this new design, one goal was uppermost in our minds: never to forget that this was not only our TIME but, most important, your TIME. We have always been a newsmagazine and always will be. We know that you look to TIME for thorough reporting, excellent writing and sound judgment. You expect us to discover the undiscovered and explain the unexplained. In a world overwhelmed by instant, unanalyzed news, you demand reflection and perspective, balance and breadth...
...goes on to talk about "a gut-level feeling of distaste for his life-style, which is perceived as morally not upstanding. Women tend to feel that one's moral character is a whole element, that if somebody is doing something morally unacceptable, it affects that person's judgment on other issues...