Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...budget victory, the come-from-behind NAFTA triumph and next year's campaign on health care. The week opened instead with two painful blasts from the past, one about sex, the other about money. The twin controversies prodded back to life old campaign questions about Clinton's judgment, character and trustworthiness. ''We've been having acid flashbacks,'' groaned one official. The most titillating charges, which came to light in the conservative monthly the American Spectator and in the Los Angeles Times, portrayed Clinton as a reckless, obsessive womanizer who used state troopers to arrange trysts even after the presidential election...
...cooperate. ''We immediately started talking freely to each other,'' says De Klerk. ''He met me on a basis of equality and discussed issues objectively,'' Mandela notes. ''I was tremendously impressed.'' Once out of prison, Mandela commended De Klerk as ''a man of integrity.'' Months later, he retracted this judgment. As the intense bargaining between them began, Mandela was first startled and then outraged to discover that De Klerk was not a meek facilitator of historical inevitability but a tough, grudging opponent. De Klerk kept attempting to insert into any proposed power- sharing agreement checks and balances that would still give...
...opinion in the Casey case was not a clear endorsement of the Pennsylvania law. Instead, Alito argued that the evidence before the court did not unequivocally show that the law would be "unduly burdensome" on married women and, until such evidence was presented, the court should not substitute its judgment for the legislature's. Stein says that view is typical of the way Alito views the role of the courts. There is a school of thought that "presumes that the branches are separate and presumes that Congress or the state legislature [have] done their work and knows what they...
...Crimson for bringing personal gossip into a public forum with insufficient regard to the feelings of its objects, and everyone else, myself included, who pointed a finger at Isis for making an honest mistake while failing to point one at those who were making a decidedly malicious error in judgment...
...Bernanke's view, to lessen the possibility of a surprise that could create panic, it is paramount that financial markets understand what the Fed is doing. Although he believes in balancing formulas and judgment calls, Bernanke has argued for picking a target rate for inflation and making clear that the Fed would cut interest rates when inflation fell below the target and raise them when it pushed above. Bernanke's presumed target: about 3% for the Consumer Price Index...