Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gannett editors stress that mainstreaming should never conflict with sound news judgment. "You don't have to compromise to follow this policy," says USA Today editor Peter Prichard. "It's just a question of trying to broaden your vision." With a smaller percentage of white male readers in its future, Gannett has clearly seen the light...
Reading, writing and arithmetic, however, are just the beginning. Today's jobs also require greater judgment on the part of workers. Clerks at Hartford's Travelers insurance company no longer just type endless claim forms and pass them along for approval by someone else. Instead they are expected to settle a growing number of minor claims on the spot with a few deft punches of the computer keyboard. Now, says Bob Fenn, director of training at Travelers: "Entry-level clerks have to be capable of using information and making decisions...
...That judgment was reinforced by four new studies presented at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in Washington last month. They confirmed earlier research indicating that low levels of HDL can result in heart disease -- even in individuals whose total cholesterol count is in the supposedly "safe" zone below 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood...
...media accountsreported that Morris was responsible for creatingthe virus, which spread out of control across anational computer network linking institutionssuch as Harvard and the Defense Department.Experts have marvelled at Morris' ingenuity, andhis friends--primarily Sudduth and Graham--havesaid the act was an accident. Morris himselfseemed nervously to await legal judgment for hismistake...
Kimura's research is intriguing, but scientists will reserve judgment on the results until they are confirmed or refuted by other studies involving greater * numbers of women -- and men. In the meantime, the findings could easily be misused. For one thing, the study could encourage some male-chauvinist bosses in their belief that women workers are unpredictable and unreliable because of their menstrual cycles. Says Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women: "I think the study could be used by some people to denigrate women...