Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maybe all three. Through four terms, Mayor Tom Bradley, 71, managed to keep his troubled nation-within-a-state from disintegrating completely without himself succumbing to hubris or, worse, scandal. A diffident, dedicated man, Bradley seemed the personification of rectitude. He never got too big for his britches. Bad judgment was something else...
...margin), but he has resolved to exonerate himself. Bradley has appointed a commission to rewrite the city's ethics rules in a "clearer and cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience taught me a painful lesson. I am determined to learn from...
Some questions are so fraught with political ambiguity that a criminal trial cannot answer them completely. One such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
...nine members of the cold-fusion review panel were asked if they thought the Utah experiment was a dead issue, eight raised their hands. The only holdout was Johann Rafelski of the University of Arizona, who did not support Pons and Fleischmann but said he would nonetheless withhold judgment...
...think we fully intend to come back to that beach. I won't tell you we'll be back on that beach tomorrow," Stilling said, adding, "[Exxon's] best judgment at this point is that it's time to move...