Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also lack running water, say it would cost $200,000 to bring pipes to Ironton. But they recently bought a golf course in a corner of the parish. Asked about these priorities, Chalin Perez replied: "That golf course provides recreation for many people. It's a question of judgment for elected officials to make...
...Solomon's famous judgment," sighed one attorney, "was easy compared with the complications of this case." True enough. Solomon, after all, had to decide the rightful mother of only one baby in the biblical dispute between the two harlots. Last week, after two months of tearful, rending drama that riveted their entire nation, Israeli officials settled an even more tangled baby case...
...American priests help define the poles. Richard McBrien, a much quoted Boston College theologian, thinks most Catholics with "credentials, intelligence and judgment" are liberals who will be lost to the church if a Pope tries to mollify the conservatives. Only a progressive Pope, he says, will restore the necessary "optimism and confidence." Kenneth Baker, editor of the conservative Homiletic and Pastoral Review, pleads the opposite: "We need a Pope who overcomes the confusion over what it means to be a Catholic. The seminaries are a shambles. We need clear directives about what the church stands for, clear lines for dissent...
...ownership of property "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities." The document warned prophetically that rich nations must share their wealth with poor ones or risk "the judgment of God and wrath of the poor...
...interests interfered with his work in court. She also "noticed during my trial that it was necessary for him [Bailey] to ingest what I consider 'hangover' medicine," that his "hands were shaking, that he seemed to be suffering from the effects of insomnia, that his judgment seemed impaired...