Word: judgmental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Solzhenitsyn challenged the Soviets to expose and punish those responsible for the mass slavery and murder he describes in Gulag. "What a catharsis that would be for the country!" he exclaimed. "Yet they say not a word, utter no moral judgment on all the executioners, the inquisitors and the informers." Instead, he said, "as soon as the West German radio announced that Gulag would be broadcast for a half-hour daily, they frantically rushed to jam it. Not a single word of this book must penetrate our country. As if they could stop...
...decisions that doctors do? The answer may be yes, according to a team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. The researchers report in the American Journal of Medicine that they have taught a computer to exercise virtually the same clinical judgment that a physician must use in choosing a form of treatment. In the process, they have learned more about how doctors make such decisions...
Understandably, none of the newsmen Wallace interviewed admitted that cushy treatment could affect his judgment. Indeed, Wallace notes that some prominent journalists who have gone junketing in the past-including CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite-"scoff at the notion that their reporting can be bought." But even if all reporters were invulnerable to blandishment, the venerable practice of junketing would still be a sticky problem. Wallace asks whether the suspicion that journalists are being influenced by favors is not enough to damage press credibility-especially at a time when the press is investigating unethical behavior in other places, including the White...
...university explained that its contract with the faculty allows it to fire professors -even those with tenure-on grounds of incompetence or "financial exigency"; the suit seeks to establish that a bona fide financial crisis does in fact exist. "Unless this matter is dealt with by a declaratory judgment," says the complaint, the university "will be faced with hundreds of different claims . . . which would in turn result in absolutely unbearable economic, legal and administrative burdens...
When Stone praises "the campus rebels" who protested the Vietnam war, his judgment springs from a painful conclusion that the violence they may have provoked is trivial compared to the violence that provoked them: The war and the military have taken up so much of our energy that we have neglected the blacks, the poor and students... I feel that the New Left and the black revolutionists...are doing God's work...in refusing any longer to submit to evil, and challenging society to reform or crush them...