Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear sense that after 25 years in public office, it was now time to get rich. With this sense of entitlement, he promptly lined up more than $750,000 in consulting work with six leading defense contractors. To believe Tower, he provided them with little more than the "enlightened judgment" they could just as easily get from reading the papers and dropping by a few academic think tanks. If true, it appears that Tower was vastly overpaid for his services, and it is troubling to contemplate what he now owes his benefactors...
...judge ruled that Curran "could not reasonably have expected that the university would defy a definitive judgment by the Holy See that he was 'unsuitable' and 'ineligible' to teach Catholic theology." There was a "direct and unavoidable" conflict, said the court, between academic freedom and the school's fealty to the Pope. The university sided with Rome, and "whether that is ultimately good for the university or for the church is something they have a right to decide for themselves." Heartily agreeing, a Vatican official said the "essential issue was the freedom of the church to regulate teaching of theology...
...John Tower the same fairness and careful judgment he used 22 years ago," Dodd said, referring to Tower's 1967 defense of Tom Dodd, then a senator and the father of the current senator. The elder Dodd was censured by the Senate for improper use of campaign funds...
...overly concerned" about the threat of rising prices and cautioned that he "would not like to see" the Fed push interest rates higher. In Tokyo last week, Bush asserted that the Fed might be overreacting to the inflation report. Said he: "I don't think you can make a judgment on one month's figures." But the President added that while he and Greenspan have "got a little difference of interpretation" about the data, "that's the only difference...
Stories like John Tower's come along with uncomfortable regularity on Capitol Hill. Hays Gorey knows that. TIME's chief congressional correspondent can't stay away from the beat he first covered more than 20 years ago. Back then, Gorey watched the Senate agonize over passing judgment on another of its own: in the dock in 1967 was Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, eventually censured for a misuse of campaign funds. Now happily back on the Hill after a two- decade hiatus reporting on national politics, Gorey finds Congress is still just as loath to bring down a colleague...