Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year I've been alone with these decisions," said Hubert Humphrey as he flew from Minnesota back to Washington, where he would soon have to decide whether to give up his deepest ambition. "I have no political counselor whose judgment I totally trust. In the old days, I always had someone, someone like Jim Rowe [longtime adviser to Democratic Presidents]. Now I do things alone...
...symbol been entirely shorn of substance. Any Prime Minister has to take seriously the monarch's right to advise and warn. Though Anthony Eden ignored Elizabeth's judgment that Britain should not make its disastrous 1956 Suez intervention, and was himself ruined by that adventure, the Queen strongly influenced Harold Wilson's decision to stop short of sending troops in countering Rhodesia's declaration of independence in 1965. Comparable governmental decisions have reflected the judgment of the Dutch and Belgian monarchs, and may possibly be seen in Spain in the future. In any event, both the ceremonial and less apparent...
...malapropian tirade against "presidential erections." As a result of prior urgings by Nessen and White House Photographer David Kennerly, President Ford briefly appeared on the show, via videotape, with some wooden gags of his own. Though a number of Republican viewers were appalled at Nessen's poor judgment, White House officials chose to characterize the affair as regrettable but forgettable. The President was reported to be "not pleased." As for the erstwhile star himself, Nessen opined that discussing the show was "not something grown men should be doing...
...hard to criticize Mother Jones for this, because it's at least a little more intelligent than Time and it offers news judgment in its articles like this...
Whether the trial is more significant or not, the article attempts at least to argue the case for some perspective in news-judgment the writer seeks a more balanced view of all that is happening in the U.S. legal system at any one time, not what the latest hot news is. And in this way, it's fighting the kind of judgment reflected in CBS, which, on an off-day in the Hearst trial, broadcast no news of the San Quentin Six, but a feature story on the many green plants in the government offices beneath the Hearst trial courtroom...