Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blind cannot lead the blind. No amount of regulations will ever substitute for good judgment. There should not have been double operations on that runway under that extremely limited visibility...
Shultz: Why, Mr. Commoner, should we all live by your standard of judgment of the relative value of various products when we have a means that allows us to give everyone a chance to express their judgments by the way they spend their own money in the market? Your concept of social governance would decide what products to produce with our resources by an essentially political process with the decisions made in Washington by politicians and bureaucrats...
Buying "high spots," as the most desirable books are called, is no guarantee of profits. Authors' reputations can rise and fall like cyclical securities. In first-edition fiction, it is usually the collective judgment of critics that establishes basic market value. But tastes change. John Galsworthy seemed a safe bet in 1930 when a first edition of his The Man of Property (1906) sold for about $250. Today that property, in good condition, would be worth a little more than half that amount. During the '50s, literary quarterlies were fragrant with allusions to Henry James' "sensibility...
Actual teaching should be geared to nurturing each student's capacity for independent critical judgment and the synthesis of new knowledge. For this, students need opportunities to observe mature minds at work, to use their own maturing judgment in the reflective consideration and interrelation of facts and ideas, and to refine their personally developed concepts in the cut-and-thrust of intellectual discussion...
...nomination last week of Edward L. Keenan '57, professor of History, to be the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) represents a serious error in timing and judgment on the part of Dean Rosovsky and other Harvard administrators who had input into the selection process. Though superficially well-qualified for the job, Keenan continues to serve on the Board of Governors of Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), the Iranian national university, which is still in its planning stages. Keenan has supported the RSKU project from the start, over the strenous objections of members...