Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked: "What would you do if you drew a one-legged man? Those urging a lottery recognize that you can't apply it to the disqualified. You return to a selective service system." But a lottery's "gravest weakness," Hershey contended, is "the substitution of chance for judgment in an area where we need much more wisdom than we have-the proper utilization of our manpower...
Often, Reischauer has been asked whether he has gone against his own best judgment in executing diplomat orders, and he has consistently answered that "I couldn't have performed my duties unless I agreed with the fundamentals of our policies." He does, however, feel that his job was to change the emphasis of some of our policies. One of Reischauer's pet points is the importance of cultural exchanges which he feels are responsible for much of the "progress in understanding...
Government leaders also rated high in the judgment of colleges, both great and small. Winning five honorary degrees each were Robert Weaver (Columbia, Illinois, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, Delaware State); Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (Ohio Wesleyan, Fairleigh Dickinson, Oakland, Morehouse, Loras); and Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield (U.S.C., Lafayette, Ottawa, Spring Arbor, Monmouth...
...book value, sales and earnings reports, also examines advertising budgets because "advertising is closely related to consumer demand." How much will he pay for a company? "There is no man living who knows what the exact right price is for a business," Cummings believes. "You have to make a judgment, and too many people are afraid to make decisions...
Mark Twain was as conscious of posterity as any other writer who ever anticipated its judgment. He saved the thousands of letters that came his way and expected his correspondents to do the same (they did). Before his death at 74 in 1910, he commissioned an official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. A large portion of Twain's estate-the fragments, stories, notes and autobiography unpublished during his lifetime-has since been paid into print by his literary executors. Yet none of it takes the full measure of the man himself...