Word: judgmentalism
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...checks up to a fixed amount--$45,600 this year--or until the agency runs out of money. That's projected to occur around 2013. At that point, Congress will be forced to decide whether to bail out the agency at a cost of $100 billion or more. When judgment day comes, other economic forces will influence the decision. Medicare, which is in far worse shape than Social Security, already is in the red on a cash basis. In what promises to play out as a mean-spirited competition, Congress has laid the groundwork to pit individual citizens against...
...some bad judgment? Sure. I’m the first one to say I’ve made mistakes,” Ladner said to the Post. He also hinted that he might take legal action if the board dismissed...
...against Google and its Print Library Project, which scans volumes at Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. The Authors Guild, a society of published authors, also filed a copyright lawsuit last month.With its lawsuit, the AAP is seeking a declaratory judgment from the court about the interpretation of copyright law.“The copyright laws say that you cannot go into a library and make a full copy of someone’s work without their permission,” said AAP President and CEO Patricia S. Schroeder.For its Print...
...won’t comment on his intellectual level. You can form your own opinion on that. I think that like President Summers he very much wants to do a good job as president, but has fallen under the influence of some people whose judgment he respects and whose judgment in a string of occasions has not proven to be very wise...
...market, but when it's tough they expect to be propped up by institutional benevolence. Of course, there's a powerful argument for sticking with an adaptable system that has served Australia so well - and that has evolved a long way since Justice Higgins' 1907 Harvester judgment on the basic needs, and appropriate minimum wage, of an unskilled male laborer. Nor does the case for radical change seem irresistible when Australia's recent history is compared with that of deregulated New Zealand and the U.S. Why would Australians opt for the low wages of the Kiwis and America's social...