Word: judgment
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...Year is not an accolade, however, or our version of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a judgment about news, and specifically about who, for better or worse, had the most impact on the course of history in a given year. The list includes people with indisputable credentials for goodness, like Mahatma Gandhi and the American G.I., but also some of the century's worst despots, like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin...
...getting it on the air. An 18- year veteran of ABC News who joined CNN in 1983, Furnad is a feisty field general who can berate his troops for a technical slipup one minute and praise them warmly the next. Staffers stand in awe of his poise and judgment under fire. "As wild as he is," says anchor Bobbie Battista, "there isn't anybody I'd rather have in there...
When Ed committed suicide, Turner says, "that left me alone, because I had counted on him to make the judgment of whether or not I was a success." Until then, Turner's only success was as a sailor, a sport he turned to because he was too scrawny and uncoordinated to play ball. After getting kicked out of Brown in his senior year for entertaining a woman in his room, he bummed around Florida for a few months before returning to Georgia and his father's business. Turner's first test as a businessman came when he discovered that...
...successfully defended the America's Cup, launched the first station distributed nationally to cable systems via satellite and the first 24-hour news network, and made the first edition of the Forbes 400 list -- enough success, he says, to have begun to lay "the ghost" of that paternal judgment "to rest." But he was still an emotional cripple. Turner's role model as a grownup remained an alcoholic father whose behavior was as extreme as it was unpredictable, who boasted about his sexual conquests, fought often with his wife and ultimately divorced her after 20 years...
...reinstating the Investment Tax Credit, killed in 1986, to boost private investment in research as well as new plant and equipment. "I want to emphasize," said Energy chief Watkins, "that this concept of a new partnership between government and industry is not about government attempting to substitute its judgment for that of experienced businessmen and free markets. It is about U.S. economic growth...