Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously described Franklin Roosevelt as a man possessed of a second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperament. In the years since, America has elected brilliant men and charming ones, wonks, rogues, rascals, a general, an actor, a nuclear engineer, in a rolling judgment about knowledge and wisdom, instinct and style. At times it seems that the murkier the issues, the sharper the matter of character becomes...
...tell you that I am very sorry for these actions and understand that they demonstrated poor judgment and character," Meinert wrote. " I have spent much time contemplating these events and can tell you that I have made every effort since then not to repeat and learn from these mistakes...
...judgment is a victory for consumers and a benchmark of judicial efficiency...
...large number of our disciplinary cases, reported sexual assaults, and the like are associated with judgment that has been clouded by drunkenness. If at all possible we'd like to have students understand these dangers in some other way than by learning from [an] unhappy experience...
...attended college. Some believe we do not inherit our land from ancestors but borrow it from our children. What we leave them will be determined by an increasing population and the calendar. Our failure to solve the population problem will no longer be a fault; it will be a judgment. HAROLD MUSNITSKY Penn Valley...