Word: judgmental
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...body politic. During the Emergency, he notes, when public dissent was curbed and newspapers were censored, an article published in an economic magazine under the innocuous title "Livestock Problems in India" began with the line: "There are at present 580 million sheep in the country." It was a premature judgment, for those same sheep, ultimately, did not relinquish their freedoms, nor have they limited their democratic aspirations to simply voting at the polls. They have been behind a whole host of social movements, from the rise of the lower castes and environmental activism to demands for regional autonomy...
...really a small part of a larger one, which is the decline of newspapers. Publishers seem to be very keyed up to embrace the Internet, but I don't have much time for the kind of site where readers do all the reviewing. Reviewing takes expertise, wisdom and judgment. I am not much fond of the notion that anyone's view is as good as anyone else...
...Keohane is currently working on a book on leadership, and she says that while she was framing a section on judgment recently, Faust came to mind...
...woman who cannot stand controversy or dispute,” Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz told The Crimson a few days before Summers’ resignation in February 2006. “I can’t imagine a worse person making this kind of a judgment call...
...count for General Education was completely neglected in the legislation—which was supposed to merely translate the Report into Facultese—and remained up in the air after several days of debate at Faculty meetings. Like other important details, it has been left to the arbitrary judgment of the SCGE.Similarly, professors fought tenaciously to ensure that their particular subject would be included—and seemed to care about little else. For instance, when a bid to include history in one category failed, an amendment to require some sort of historical study succeeded. The result...