Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official statement on environment. In a message prefacing the fifth annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality, he expressed faith in the nation's ability to improve its economy while bettering its environment. A policy of trade-offs between economic and ecological realities, he wrote, "in my judgment is the course we must continue to follow...
Died. John Gordon, 84, crusty, Scottish-born editor in chief of Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express; in London. In large part because of Gordon's news judgment, the circulation of the Sunday Express, which was about 560,000 when he became a co-editor in 1928, had grown to over 4 million by the time of his death. In 1940, let down by a contributor, Gordon himself dashed off a column that was such a success that he kept it up for over 30 years. His weekly "Current Affairs" sometimes tilted at members of Britain's royal...
...that matter, consider Ford him self in the matter of pardoning Former President Richard Nixon. He knew it would be an unpopular act, and even when he found just how unpopular, he still defended it before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the right thing to do in his judgment for the best interests of the nation - something he would even do again. Whatever the merits of the pardon, in that case his perception of his leadership duty and his role as President was exactly right. As Woodrow Wilson put it: "A President whom [the country] trusts can not only lead...
...millisecond miracle," "reverberent field dominant," and "silver-lined circuitry." Don't worry if you don't understand these terms; you're not supposed to. The companies are preying upon your technical ignorance and attempting to dazzle you with impressive-sounding terms so you will trust their "expert" judgment of which product is best...
...Haystead, who, in her twelve years in "biz," has counseled, comforted and cajoled a generation of TIME writers and researchers. When figures from different sources clash headon, Haystead resolves them by a process of statistical triangulation supplemented by what Senior Editor Church regards as "a very shrewd and savvy judgment." Besides her duties as teacher and statistician, Haystead also prepares the column "Market Week" for TIME'S overseas editions. Not least, her unflappable calm steadies the section through journalistic crises. "I can tell her late Friday that we are scheduling some huge story and need a lot of last...