Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deans' judgment may seem harsh and was perhaps not handled as smoothly as it could have been. But there is a reason why Sigma Chi has been excluded from the University's roster of official organizations, and the deans were wise to stand their ground. The members of Sigma Chi who volunteered their time and efforts to help first-years move in could have performed the same service without appearing as representatives of their organization. If Sigma Chi wishes to contribute to the college community, it should, in the future, keep its activities within the College's rules...
...failure occurred during an unusually complex maintenance procedure and was caused by a combination of two computer-software glitches and a bad judgment call. Those glitches resulted in the shutdown of one essential SOHO attitude-sensing gyroscope, a failure by a computer to recognize that the gyroscope was not operating, the unnecessary firing of SOHO's hydrazine-powered thrusters, and a mistake by controllers in switching off a gyroscope that was working properly. "Thrusters kept firing to null out a roll that was not happening," explains NASA's Michael Greenfield, co-chair of the investigation group...
...have fulfilled our duty," he said, "by providing substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for the impeachment of the President of the United States." Not surprisingly, the ever-terse David Kendall disagreed. "We do know this," he answered. "There is no basis for impeachment." That judgment, of course, will be made by 435 politically queasy House members who, given their druthers, would probably leave their new guests locked up until January...
...reached a decision was as important as the decision itself. He had the courage to face facts as they were, not as he would like them to be. And in that, Justice Powell represented the best we could hope to become: a genuinely wise man for whom balanced judgment represented a prime virtue...
...long. This is a feat, considering that polls point in the opposite direction. They have accomplished it in a statesmanlike manner by announcing again and again, even when not asked, that when the time comes to consider impeachment, they will do so, and meanwhile they reserve judgment. This is sort of like your brother-in-law saying that although you're probably in perfectly good health, there is an ashenness in your complexion that suggests terminal liver cancer, and God forbid it should happen, but if it does, he would like to have your lake cabin...