Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judgment will be rendered by an independent board of alumni, faculty, students, and administrators elected from their respective constituencies. The members of said board will be free of any personal holdings in the corporation in questions...
...affairs. The offer was declined by his successor, Hans Brunhart, head of the Fatherland Union Party, but Kieber nonetheless refused to step down. The impasse virtually paralyzed Liechtenstein's government for two months. Last week the head of state, Prince Franz Josef II, 71, stepped in to render judgment: both Kieber and Brunhart could share the job. Now Liechtenstein, where only Switzerland maintains an embassy, has twice as many Foreign Ministers as it has foreign ambassadors...
Still, Kodak has cause for concern. It plans an appeal of an adverse judgment in an antitrust case brought by Berkey Photo; Kodak could be ordered to pay damages as high as $113 million. Despite its dominance of the $8.5 billion photographic-supply market, Kodak has been unable to dethrone Polaroid in the instant-photography field, which accounts for 40% to 50% of the sales of nonmovie, amateur cameras. Kodak remains the industry's giant, but Polaroid has been catching up. On sales of $5.9 billion last year, Kodak's net earnings dipped 1%, to $643 million; meanwhile...
...contends that the First Amendment should be an absolute bar to the Niemi suit. But the California Court of Appeal disagreed, ruling that Niemi was entitled to a jury trial. Last week the high court refused to review the decision. In doing so, the court was making no judgment on the merits; apparently it simply wanted to hold off until the case runs its course in the California courts. But whether in this case or another, the Justices someday will have to decide just how much the First Amendment protects publishers and broadcasters when life contagiously imitates...
...historian Basil Taylor. Taylor, a great scholar of English art, possessed a sense of ethical delicacy almost inconceivable in the art world today (and certainly never shared by Berenson): he advised Mellon unofficially, for free, accepting only his expenses, lest any other arrangement "cast a shadow on my judgment about things." The combination of the two men was formidable, and it brought many masterpieces of English art into Mellon's collection...