Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Nations and other organizations, imperfect as they are, seem to have accomplished a great deal more than the League of Nations. So despite the quantum jump in military capability compared with the previous 20-year period, we have stretched the period of peace, and it is my judgment that the prospects are even better for the next decade and beyond...
Slate takes pride in never refusing a client, and most of them leave his offices satisfied. Computer Designer Jerry Kiliszweski, for example, faced a $3,000 judgment for a faulty set of cabinets he had built, plus a host of unexpected medical expenses; creditors had garnisheed a quarter of his wages and attached his savings account, car and aged pickup truck. Within 24 hours after Kiliszweski saw Slate, the garnishment and attachments were ended. Recalls his wife Pat: "When I said I don't understand the judicial system very well, Mr. Slate just said, 'Well, honey, everyone...
...there is no alternative to capitalism that credibly promises both wealth and liberty. Despite its transitory woes and weaknesses, capitalism in the foreseeable future will not only survive but also stands to prosper and spread. Perhaps the most balanced judgment of Adam Smith's wondrous system is Winston Churchill's famous conclusion about democracy: It is the worst system?except for all those other systems that have been tried and failed...
...typewriter, a $50 tape recorder, a $75 camera and a $100 Mercury convertible named Barbara. Liabilities: $2,900 in hotel bills, $140,000 owed to the Internal Revenue Service, $235,000 in overdue legal fees, a $344,899 debt to McGraw-Hill for advance payments and a judgment against Irving for the Hughes story, and a $55 million claim by Art Dealer Fernand Legros, who asserts that Irving libled him in his book Fake! "This really all came about as a result of the Hughes affair," says Irving. "That man-I should sue him as a public nuisance...
...Gentle Tasaday, the story of these unspoiled aborigines is told for the first time with energy and detail by John Nance, an American reporter stationed in Manila. With critical judgment, eyewitness authority, literary gracelessness and barreling narrative excitement, he has made a ragged classic of popular anthropology...