Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Nixon's action could prove to be terminal-although not in the way the White House had intended. By firing Archibald Cox, Nixon had removed one of his best hopes of eventual vindication: a final judgment by an independent investigator that the President was in no way criminally implicated in the Watergate deceits and transgressions. Now a decapitated Justice Department, stripped of any independence and trying to continue the investigations, could come to a similar judgment-but with little credibility...
...seen all day, a shredded, blue and white Star of David. Commanding the fort was a young lieutenant from Tel Aviv. Leaning against a bunker, he reflected bitterly: "Back home they call this 'the Yom Kippur war' or 'the war of the Day of Judgment.' I call it 'the meaningless war.' There's no point to it. We are fighting it because the Arabs started it. We are just pounding each other to hell, causing a lot of casualties, breaking each other's necks for no earthly reason. The Arabs...
...damages, he had attempted to settle the case all at once. In his original ruling, Christensen figured that certain "predatory" practices by IBM had damaged Telex to the tune of $117.5 million, a figure that he then tripled in accordance with antitrust law. But in this rush to judgment, he ruefully admitted last week, he had underestimated a crucial factor: much of Telex's potential business came from marketing disc drives and other "peripheral" computer components based on secret IBM designs. In his earlier finding that Telex had gained the designs by hiring away IBM employees, he had ordered...
...draw any firm conclusions. But Dr. David Winter, the man in charge of the experiment, sounded quite optimistic: "I don't see any differences [between the reactions of men and women to flight conditions]. Nor do I expect anything dramatically different." If further study bears out that judgment, women may yet fly in space before the end of the decade...
...Widmerpool's wife Pamela, an elegant harpie who was visited upon him like a judgment in Powell's previous volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), who now moves to center stage. As promiscuous and frigid as ever, she lends a macabre sexual touch to dreadful Widmerpool's international intriguing. She also ensnares Powell's two important new characters-Louis Glober and Russel Gwinnett...