Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shove, I am prepared to fight for my claim." Two days after Christmas, Fossey was hacked to death in her bed. Suspects ranged from vengeful poachers to an American researcher who had proclaimed his innocence and fled the country before a Rwandan court found him guilty in absentia. The judgment is questionable. Harold Hayes does not offer conclusive evidence about who committed the crime. It is enough that he has given us a picture of Fossey that is more complex than the ones offered in the film version of Gorillas in the Mist and in Farley Mowat's Woman...
Nuclear targeting is admittedly a complicated business. Planners must calculate the reliability and accuracy of the missiles and nuclear warheads, measure them against Soviet defenses and make a judgment on what it actually takes to deter the Kremlin from launching a first strike. Still, the notion of raining down nuclear weapons on the U.S.S.R. -- "convincing every last Soviet official that he's the target," as one Air Force official put it -- is sufficiently outrageous to spur experts to speak out. In the quarterly journal International Security, national security scholars Desmond Ball and Robert Toth call the current version of SIOP...
Though most states let parents or guardians make such decisions according to their best judgment, New York, Maine and Missouri demand "clear and convincing evidence" -- such as a living will. Mount Vernon, Mo., happens to be where Cruzan lies helpless. The main question now, said Rehnquist, was whether Missouri had a right to impose such requirements. The majority decided that because of the state's powerful interest in the preservation of life and the "obvious and overwhelming finality" of such life-and-death decisions, the state did have that right...
...fought for it for three years because my judgment was that it was a good deal for Quebec. Finally, it did not work. I was sad, but I had to turn around and say there is another challenge ahead...
...naval careers); his wife became an Episcopal minister four years ago. Poindexter was devoted to trying to thwart terrorists, free American hostages and bring democracy to Nicaragua. Nobody argued with those objectives. "No defect in character," declared a former Cabinet officer who worked with him. "But a defect in judgment. He should not be so punished for that...