Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-member panel from the American Arbitration Association has concluded that Betty Shapiro's fourth daughter took Mom to the cleaners. Edelman bought and sold millions of dollars of mutual funds on Shapiro's account, generating some $200,000 in sales charges and commissions. The panel's judgment: Edelman's employer, Prudential-Bache Securities, must pay $1 million in punitive fees and $546,769 in compensation to Shapiro...
...break their vow of silence. After three years of research, Mangold concludes that counterintelligence and the recruitment of Soviets -- both of which came under Angleton's scrutiny -- "were virtually paralyzed by Angleton's operations." TIME's survey of many senior CIA veterans indicates there is considerable truth to this judgment...
...lettered, that reads, "Bernard Bertrand is hereby declared a Complete Ass." This bit of malevolence unhinges him because it makes him realize that many people, perhaps all of Paris, may have the same unflattering opinion of him and that there is no way he can change or escape the judgment...
...aftermath of a fierce cyclone looks like a judgment. But no reasonable attempt to comprehend Bangladesh's afflictions could find a moral in them. In 1970, a year before the birth trauma of the Bangladesh republic, a cyclone may have taken half a million lives. The number was only a guess: survivors, typically poor rice farmers and fishermen on exposed delta islands, can never afford to count the lost. Their suffering -- starvation, cholera, typhus -- is just beginning. Tagore identified April with Rudra, the Indian storm god, but Sea-Waves is really a meditation on "brute Madness." Wonders the poet...
...paper's stumbles appear to be the result of tension between its reputation for prudence and cautious news judgment and its recent attempts to develop a more with-it image. Since he took charge in 1986, Frankel has tried to liven up the 140-year-old paper with more flavorful writing and beefed-up coverage of sports and city news. But the Times has also been giving more prominent play to softer features, such as a piece last week on how celebrities are dealing with a local strike of apartment-building doormen...