Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the prestige of the office seems to be returning to the level that its founders saw in it, choosing the man has remained chaotic, and as the report puts it, too often left to the "personal judgment of the nominee, a judgment often exercised rapidly and in confusion in the small hours of the morning." The report urges that the process be more public and that there be sufficient time for background checks on the candidates...
...District Judge Charles Richey awarded Nader $10 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages; another $51 compensatory and $25,000 punitive damages went to the Connecticut citizens group that sponsored the rallies Nader was unable to reach. However, the Circuit Court of Appeals set aside this judgment, holding that lawsuits like Nader's should not be decided until the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has been studying the mirror evils of no-show and overbooking for years, had more time to rule on appropriate penalties for overbooking. But last week the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion written...
...still on the Supreme Court's docket is an appeal from a decision against two Virginia private schools that refuse to accept black students. Two federal courts have already ruled against the schools (and Ford's position) on 13th Amendment grounds. If the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of the lower courts, a new legal frontier in racial discrimination will have been established...
Allowing non-credit participation in ROTC implies no moral judgment of the military of U.S. foreign policy, but simply respect for individual choice. Harvard has moved a long way from the cavalier moral judgment at used to impose on the activities of its students; the decision to permit participation in ROTC eliminates a glaring example of University paternalism that has existed too long...
...shifts on affirmative action show, federal regulation of higher education has gradually become Derek Bok's number-one national issue. His position again reflects a curious and contradictory mixture of liberal stands: while Bok argues that government regulation ignores what he sees as the central role of "experience, judgment, and informed intuition [rather than of] logical demonstration" in education, he also believes that universities have failed to meet their social obligation to guide public policy makers: "Beneath these complaints [of government officials about higher education spokesmen's attitudes to Washington] lies a deeper concern. The quality of government regulation does...