Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...palsied hand. His brilliant dark eyes understood immediately. He understood the time pressure, the risks and why I had to treat him right away, in the emergency room. Sasha nodded and said O.K. Then, so did Mom and Dad. I marveled at how these parents deferred to Sasha's judgment. They knew...
...Citing a need for closure, Anne Darwin lobbied for an inquest, and her husband was declared legally dead in April 2003. The judgment enabled the couple to reap a life insurance policy of about $50,000 and wiped out an additional $260,000 in mortgage payments on their home...
...concerns. Voters in the two parties remain deeply divided over the qualities they seek in a President and the concerns that most worry them. Many more Republicans than Democrats are looking for a candidate with strong moral character, while Democrats are much more likely to seek someone with good judgment who cares about people like them. National security is set solidly at the front of G.O.P. minds, while Democrats continue to focus on economic issues. There is one topic they care about equally: social and moral issues. But that's because they each oppose the other's views. Those gulfs...
...critics, Mbeki is aloof, arrogant and prickly. Gevisser does not dispute that judgment, but he says those traits are grounded in conviction and circumstance. "If Mbeki has been driven by one overarching dream, it is that of self-determination," writes Gevisser. It began, he thinks, with Mbeki's embrace of exile as a new beginning. "Of all Thabo Mbeki's friends from exile I met during the research for this book not one recalled him, ever, talking about his childhood, or even mentioning the place of his birth," says Gevisser...
...Overall, the report is being greeted in Europe as "good news", according to Henning Riecke, a proliferation expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. The substance of the report - the judgment that Iran is not currently engaged in building a bomb - means "we have more time" for negotiation, he said. But "the current pressure on Iran should not falter under the impression of one report," he said. The biggest surprise in Europe was less the findings themselves, but the fact that they came from the U.S. intelligence community. Washington had been identified with the most alarmist assessment...