Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's end, Baby Boy Grossberg was being reclaimed from the morgue by his grandparents, who will name him before burying him. Defense lawyers are urging us not to rush to judgment, which is surely a prelude to a rush to explain and a plea to excuse. One attorney said, "Brian, the individual, the human being, the nice, normal kid, has been displayed, and I think that it gives the public a different perspective, and I think it's helpful." Helpful to whom? Not to a moral life. There are monsters among us who, with wealthy parents and a battalion...
...making a deal with his insurance company whereby it pays Simpson's legal bills in the civil trial and provides him with spending money; in return Simpson releases the company from any liability. In other words, if Simpson loses, the insurer is off the hook. Faced with a big judgment, Simpson could simply declare bankruptcy...
Those who supported the resolution said they thought it had been watered down from the original form, and others were ambivalent about the council's judgment in making a decision...
...chief of staff to tee up decisions for the President and to take care of the ones he shouldn't be bothered with. The role requires someone with strong political judgment, not an honest broker--unless Clinton himself plans to spend more time down in the weeds this term. "The White House makes ideas, it makes policies," says a senior official. "Erskine would come and ask us what we need"--as a good manager might ask subordinates in a business--"and people would look back at him kind of baffled. What they needed was an answer--what does the President...
...performed by 14,000 heavily armed troops? Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu said he did not believe military intervention was necessary any longer, and he relayed that view to the U.N. Security Council--which voted to authorize the mission anyway. Canada still planned to go. But Clinton reserved judgment. "I don't think we know enough yet," he concluded, "to say that the mission won't be needed." He ordered the Pentagon to continue preparations but delayed giving a deployment order. Relief workers on the scene still insist that an armed force is vital to get food and medicine through, arguing...