Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will recognize it. Does he mean that I must accept atavistic guilt and do penance? Does he refer to a time when racism no longer exists in this country of 250 million and rising? "From where I sit," it appears that prejudice will not be eliminated until the Last Judgment. Or does Professor Kilson mean that the mature stage will be around the year 2070, when the last Civil Rights widow tells all--that is, when the victims of broadly institutionalized American racism no longer inhabit the earth...
Primary voters in general, and New Hampshire voters in particular, savor the right to reserve judgment, which suggests that Forbes is neither so flush nor Dole so wounded as last week's freeze frame suggests. Dole has 2 1/2 weeks, a political lifetime, to regain the lead in New Hampshire, during which time Forbes will finally face the scrutiny afforded a front runner. Though Forbes has no real political record to help or haunt him, he is sure to have to answer for ideas he has promoted in his magazine, from his support of Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan...
...seems the first question the Harvard faculty must answer is, what is the standard of judgment? If Harvard students are compared solely with other Harvard students, then certainly grade inflation is extant, for the average grade here should be a C, not a B+. If, however, Harvard students are graded against, say, all American college students, it would make sense that the average grade here is a B+. In fact, it would make sense even if it were A, for Harvard students are the elite, and as such, should be doing work of the highest quality...
...always, with managed care, it comes down to whose judgment prevails--the doctor or the insurer. Dr. Lloyd Sederer, senior vice president of Clinical Services at McLean, who believes that for the most part the benefit rollbacks have not caused undue harm, nevertheless is growing weary of the hours he spends dickering with insurance companies. "We have clinical responsibility but not the fiscal control," he says. "The next step is to give us a fixed budget and goals and then let us deliver our services to meet those goals...
...knowledge of this community and its resources for undergraduates is unsurpassed, and all of us on the staff value deeply his perspective and his judgment," she continued. "So, too, we value his wry humor and the literary allusions which enliven the Yard Bulletin and FDO meetings, and which keep us all in focus during our busiest times of the year...