Word: judgmentalism
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Southwest Airlines announced last June that it would enforce a long-standing policy of requiring the obese to buy an extra seat based solely on the judgment of staff at the check-in counter that a particular passenger wouldn't fit in a single seat. Southwest says most people who have contacted the airline have supported the policy. And it doesn't seem to have hurt business. Southwest is the only one of the top five airlines that is in the black. But advocates for the obese are livid over the policy. "It infuriates both men and women," says Allen...
...This is not just one magazine's judgment. China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan calls Kim "quick-witted." Outgoing South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his 2000 summit with Kim Jong Il, praises him as a "man of insight." And the Dear Leader impressed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "very decisive and practical and serious...
...Sung?North Korea's "eternal president," according to its constitution?has been dead for eight and a half years: he's no longer so good at thinking on his feet. Kim Jong Il, for his part, is alive and well but prone to egregious lapses of judgment, especially in a crunch. That is what makes the present crisis so very scary: not the high caliber of America's adversary, but precisely the opposite...
...world situation demands the best minds attacking complex issues with expertise and sound judgment , and these programs will help us to attract top talents,” Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye said in a press release...
...federal district court judge is currently considering the government’s request that summary judgment be made forcing Harvard to pay $102 million in damages...