Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western diplomats in Moscow indicated that they would reserve judgment about the significance of Shevardnadze's remarks until they show up as proposals at the U.N.-sponsored Afghan peace talks, which resume next month in Geneva. Said one Western official: "It is too soon to uncork the champagne." But both sides seem eager to lay the groundwork to make this next Geneva session the last...
...certainly look unseemly. After the Texas justices declined to upset the pro-Pennzoil trial judgment and Texaco decided last month to settle by paying $3 billion, local court watchers were reminded of published estimates of the greater electoral largesse of Pennzoil's 23 Texas attorneys: they ladled out more than $300,000 to the jurists in 1986 alone. Now that case, along with the quickening torrent of lawyer donations to judges at all levels, is sparking what could be the first serious reform effort since the system settled into place in 1873. This week Chief Justice John Hill will take...
...press, which considers itself the arbiter of how long anyone lasts in the limelight, doesn't like to have that judgment challenged. Having once buried Gary Hart politically, first with its coverage of the Donna Rice weekend, then with editorials pronouncing him too flawed in character to be President, the press now finds itself having to await the electorate's verdict...
...insurance industry is reserving judgment. Traffic accidents cost the U.S. an estimated $80 billion a year, and if collisions, injuries and claims increase, so will premiums. "The fatality count will be a good barometer," says Harvey Seymour of the Insurance Information Institute, an industry public relations organization. "If it continues to increase, someone is going to pay. Sixty-five miles per hour has a price...
...comments, nor did they stress Jackson's ties with black Hatemonger Louis Farrakhan. Last fall Jackson received a similar free ride about a far more minor peccadillo: his brief and ill-advised commercial endorsement of a chain of business schools. Had another candidate made a comparable financial arrangement, his judgment would surely have been attacked...