Word: judgment
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...could legally deny a woman what the nation's highest court has decreed to be her right. Second, the bishops have acted as if it were universally accepted that human life from the moment of conception is a person requiring legal protection. But that is a moral judgment, not scientific fact, disputed even by religious leaders who no more favor murder than do the Catholic bishops...
That is just the point -- reform has been marginal -- and it explains Gorbachev's latest, boldest move. Next month will be the fifth anniversary of his ascension. By Soviet reckoning it is the end of Gorbachev's personal first five-year plan. It is therefore a time of judgment. The judgment is harsh. The lot of the Soviet consumer is not just stagnating but deteriorating. Efficiency, incentive, initiative, competitiveness, productivity, quality, pride, "self-accountability" -- these new buzz words are beginning to sound as hollow as the old slogans about the glory of socialist labor...
...rush and tumble and fullness (if not the grand muscular articulation) of that master's paintings. British critic Sacheverell Sitwell was right to compare Rowlandson's sketch of guests floundering, bare-bottomed and head over heels, down the staircase at a "crush" at Somerset House to Rubens' Last Judgment in Munich...
...letter pointed out the pervasiveness of homophobia and names an excessive and unnecessary violence. Our letter spoke to the issue of the arrested persons in the bathroom and at no point attempted to justify people having sex in public places. On the latter issue, we do not pass judgment for or against. I believe I reflect the opinion of the gay community in expressing our divided and conflicting views on this issue...
While Bhutto still adheres to the liberal democratic ideals that many Pakistanis found so attractive in the 1988 election, her judgment has often been carried away by the vengeful currents of Pakistani politics, especially the fury of those in her People's Party who were cruelly oppressed under Zia. Among the party's first acts after coming to power was a campaign to bribe and threaten legislators in Punjab, an opposition-ruled province where more than 60% of Pakistanis live. The goal: to overthrow Bhutto's nemesis, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Punjab's chief minister, a wealthy industrialist and a crony...