Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before Daly came to the University. And because Bok claims that the government is both "massively involved" with universities and "enormously fragmented," it is very important for higher education that the government agencies understand how universities work. The quality of decisions they make is not dependent entirely on their judgment, Bok says. It is "critically dependent on the information these agencies receive." Daly is most important to the administration, Bok says, because he has an understanding of the informational processes within the government. In less jargonish terms, that means Daly can simply pick up the phone and immediately get through...
...trilogy, Sword of Honour, which Sykes thinks is his best work. The trilogy has, I think, much of value in it, and Waugh's parody of his own Brideshead Revisited is among the funniest passages he ever wrote. But on the whole Sykes doesn't make his judgment stick. Waugh was not the man to interpret an event like the Second World War, and under the stress his humor coarsens and his elegiac tone become saccharine...
...Della Terza's judgment, however, Napoli's poor ability in Italian disqualified her. "I never discriminated against anyone in my life," he says. "I feel very strongly that I helped my former student as much as I could," he says, both in her candidacy in his department and, through calls to colleagues, in her search for jobs at other universities. Della Terza told the MCAD Napoli "makes such mistakes in speaking and writing Italian that we could not in good conscience allow her to teach courses more sophisticated than Elementary Italian and perhaps Intermediate Italian." Moreover, he said, Napoli...
...have contributed, of course: ques tionable management, an expensive capital-equipment program, outdated and perhaps unnecessary services. But there is one factor that stands out above all: salary and benefit escalation for the nation's approximately 700,000 postal workers. While I do not want to pass arbitrary judgment on the merits of the labor contracts negotiated in recent years by the Postal Service, here are some important figures...
...share of her husband's pension. Then after the settlement she learned that such benefits are indeed considered community property in California. Mrs. Smith decided to sue her counsel. Three lawyers declined to take the case; Freidberg accepted it, took the attorney to court and eventually won a judgment of $100,000. Early last year the influential California Supreme Court upheld Mrs. Smith's claim in a decision that set high standards for the performance of attorneys. Said the court: "Even as to doubtful matters, an attorney is expected to perform sufficient research to enable him to make...