Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repent my own mistakes of judgment about what to support. Too often we relied on administrative means rather than permitting events to develop in a creative direction. We were too concerned with what to restrain, what to forbid. I shared responsibility for that form of governing, but now I'm against it. We have to show tolerance toward change. Do these changes really affect communist ideology? In my opinion...
Much of the judgment will rest on what actually happened in late 1981, when spreading unrest had made Poland almost ungovernable. Brezhnev was in power in Moscow, and the doctrine he had formulated allowed the Soviet Union to intervene militarily should its interests in Eastern Europe be threatened. It may be hard to imagine today, but nine years ago, the invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 were still powerful reminders of Soviet resolve...
...year, he publicly scalded a four-star Air Force general for going behind his back to Congress. Military-service chiefs who oppose Cheney on budget cuts earn a solid verbal thump on the wrist. Last week Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be dismissed since President Harry Truman in 1949 sacked Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld and the first military...
...logistical preparations for an offensive. The CIA and Pentagon quickly changed their estimates of an attack from possible to highly likely. The White House and State Department, however, clung to the view that Saddam was only trying to frighten Kuwait into territorial concessions and refused to accept that intelligence judgment...
...have occurred to you that there might be some pesky civil liberties concerns about all this banning business. But school officials in Lubbock appear to have written all that off using a "clear and present danger argument." The day of judgment, after all, could take us by surprise...