Word: judgmentalism
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...accurately price their own assets is no good either. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner hopes to get around this by jump-starting a market for troubled mortgage securities, but he hasn't decided yet how exactly to do that. For the moment, determining the health of banks remains a government judgment call...
More than any of her peers, Winslet can shape her greatest moments within those silences. In The Reader, she bares her character in the piercing looks of lust, suspicion, self-loathing and judgment that Hanna directs at her young lover and in her terrible stares of incomprehension during her trial. And Revolutionary Road pivots on the scene in which April, sitting on the beach next to her husband, realizes that he is never going to keep his promise that they'll move to Paris - that he will always ultimately fail her. It's a shattering realization that Winslet conveys...
...Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn E. McGrath ’70 said that while the admissions process can be defrauded, the careful scrutiny given to each applicant typically catches inconsistencies. McGrath acknowledged new technology can more efficiently flag such cases, but stressed a desire to rely primarily on readers’ judgment. “This is not a science,” she said. “This is a thorough careful, human process and we intend to keep it that...
...ruling Monday, by the Conseil d'Etat, or State Council, was cheered by organizations representing French Jews and families of Jews who were deported during the war - a mere 3,000 of whom ultimately returned. The judgment involved the case of a 76 year-old woman seeking damages for the 1941 deportation of her father by Vichy forces to Auschwitz, where he was killed. In its decision, the Conseil d'Etat held the French state, as then represented by Vichy, "responsible for damages caused by actions which did not result from the occupiers' direct orders, but facilitated deportation from France...
...trouble with policy wonks is that they solve yesterday’s problems. Though policymakers should learn from their experience, they warp their judgment by learning too much from the particular crises they handled when they were last in office. As a result, they often ignore criticism in their attempt to prevent previous plights from recurring. And, when everyone in the room has the same nightmare, each in his lookout watches the same bogeyman...