Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's two or three most popular lecturers, and undergraduate and graduate students flocked to him for individual supervision. His warmth and understanding brought him many demands as a Master and administrator. In no way a prima donna, Professor Owen did not refuse burdensome tasks that required sound judgment and sensitivity...
Sensing a flap of sorts, Pusey referred the decision on Watson's work to the Harvard Corporation. It was the first time that University officials outside of the Press chose to review the editorial judgment of Wilson and the Syndics. Even though the Press continued to stand behind Watson's manuscript, the Corporation decided to reject it. In Pusey's words, publication would have meant "taking sides in a controversy among scientists." Pusey and the Fellows forgot that any work--whether a memoir, detached scholarship, or pastoral poetry--is bound to offend somebody, even a good scientist...
During the past year, of course, it took bad judgment, bad timing and bad luck to lose money in the market. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 basic blue chips rose 15% in 1967, but the Dow is much too narrow a gauge. Outmoded and inadequate, it does not come close to measuring the total market or its most dynamic companies, even though it has an exaggerated influence over the market's mood. It closed last week at 864-just about where it was three years ago. The better, broader Standard & Poor index...
Thus, one of the large factors in the market is people's judgment of other people. Markets react to what amateurs think the professionals will do, and to what professionals think the amateurs will do. Which means that the value of a company's shares often depends less on their real worth than on what some people think that other people will pay for them...
...Botswana program, focused at the training center, which will integrate dollars from Sweden, lectures from Britain and extension agents from the Peace Crops. Our pace is set by the Government of Botswana. Any Volunteers or staff who has witnessed underemployment will never be tempted to prefer growth to sound judgment. Two further factors now guarantee against excessively rapid growth: a new system of budgeting introduced by the Bureau of the Budget and the clear excess of needs for Volunteers over current response of this generation...