Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classified-information problem is frustrating because there is no review of the subjective judgment of the intelligence agencies in saying they will not release information that a court has held necessary for a fair trial...
...think that if the Attorney General had understood the Fernandez case better he would have made the judgment differently about whether to declassify...
...with politics and politicians. There is the hangover from the gulf war, an episode that deflated the vaunted image of French power and influence. Paris waffled about what to do almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, "The gulf crisis revealed the weak influence of our diplomacy, the modest competitiveness of our industrialists and above all the archaic state of our military equipment...
...enduring. No wonder; only about 12% of the inhabitants of the U.S. were enslaved in 1860, but almost two- thirds of the Russian empire's people were serfs at the time of emancipation. In 1918 the Bolsheviks instituted a totalitarianism more complete than that of the Nazis, in the judgment of Soviet sociologist Boris Grushin. "Even under Adolf Hitler, German industry was relatively independent of the system," says Grushin, "but in the Soviet Union, everything was swallowed up by the state...
That's the doomsday prospectus outlined in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron's sequel to his wonderfully reverberant 1984 thriller, which did decent business and minted Arnold Schwarzenegger as a robust robot star. A few Hollywood moguls project another, more dire scenario for T2. Their nightmare ( goes like this: after opening this week to long lines and muscular grosses, the film will go flabby. Audiences will quickly turn to cuddlier movie diversions. The action-adventure genre, which has worldwide appeal but whose budgets have been ballooning until they are ready to burst, will finally be terminated. And Carolco...