Word: judgment
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...largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." JANE FONDA, actress, apologizing for her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site in protest against the U.S. war effort, in an interview with U.S. television program 60 Minutes...
...violent Manhattan street gang whose members call themselves the Whyos and communicate with an elaborate, secret singing language (they are selected for their musical ability). Then he falls violently in love with a fetching Irish Whyo named Beanie, "a sassy girl gangster who sometimes wore trousers." Against his better judgment, our hero gets embroiled in the Whyos' various capers and feuds, including an internal power struggle involving their charismatic but cruel leader, Dandy Johnny, who sexually assaults his underlings and wears special boots tricked out with ax blades...
...company that was tainted by controversies over how it obtains defense contracts; after admitting to an extramarital affair with a female executive; in Chicago. Boeing called the affair improper conduct on the part of the married Stonecipher, a point on which the former CEO agreed. "I used poor judgment," he said...
...suspects accused of the most serious crimes - the planners and leaders of the genocide - will go through Rwanda's conventional criminal courts. But those accused of murder, violent assault, torture and looting will be tried in nearly 11,000 traditional gacaca courts like the one sitting in judgment on Ntirushwamaboko. Gacaca (pronounced ga-cha-cha) proceedings, named for the Rwandan word for the grass on which they are traditionally held, employ "people of impeccable integrity" elected by villagers to serve as judge and jury. That means that in Zivu, and in thousands of other villages throughout Rwanda, a genocide carried...
...used the dubious reasoning that these applicants should have known better as grounds for calling their behavior, according to HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, “unethical at best,” when it was in fact an innocuous lapse in judgment at worst. In total, over a short 9-hour time window, 119 applicants did the surreptitious deed. We can hardly imagine that many more students came across the instructions and resisted their obvious temptation, and we don’t believe their decision makes them any more qualified for business school if they did. If this action...