Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three who did comment were cautionary but essentially upbeat. "There are enormous problems," says Bush. "Problems of judgment, problems of management. But I don't see any insurmountable ones that a prudent person can't handle...
American Motors Corp., smallest of the four U.S. automakers, has always been an up-and-down company, but lately it has hit a longer-than-usual losing streak. Beset by both bad luck and bad judgment, A.M.C. lost $73.8 million in its past two fiscal years. Its own accountants warned that the company's ability to stay in business depended partly on whether it could repay or extend bank loans that fell due in early 1977. By the time Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. faced stockholders at the annual meeting last week, that crisis had passed. Chapin told the group...
...Treasury Secretaries, George Shultz and John Connally, than to his CEA chairmen. The council reached its lowest point under Herbert Stein, who not only was overshadowed by Shultz in policy-making but also defended Administration policy so incessantly as to arouse suspicion that politics was warping his professional judgment. Alan Greenspan* restored the CEA's professional respectability largely by staying out of the public eye and talking primarily to President Ford-a course Schultze seems most unlikely to follow...
...driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...
Amber Jim asked Gilmore what his favorite animal was. The tiger, he answered, because "they're so powerful, so beautiful, so fearless." He quoted her William Blake's "Tiger, tiger, burning bright ..." then added his judgment: "Neat, huh?" He asked her who her favorite boxer was, adding that his was Rocky Marciano...