Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judgment, people cried. If public figures misbehave in private, then how can we trust them in office? Good character is an important quality of leadership. Adulterers and plagiarizers should not be models for children to admire. Public figures have to meet a certain standard of behavior just because they are in the spotlight...
...flip side of Gephardt's natural feel for the legislative compromise is, as former Administrative Aide John Crosby puts it, a tendency "to be all things to all people." Gephardt is overtolerant, too slow to judgment. Other than anti-Reagan boiler plate, criticisms rarely pass his lips. Even some loyal aides concede that he has flitted from issue to issue in a way that reduces his effectiveness. Last week longtime Spokesman and Confidant Don Foley resigned from the campaign because of friction with Campaign Manager Bill Carrick. But Gephardt has often relieved subordinates by kicking them upstairs. "If I have...
...awarded to veterans with illnesses. In seeking to make their case, the plaintiffs' lawyers are expected to bring up the new evidence that alcoholism may have a genetic basis. Says Kirk Johnson, general counsel for the A.M.A., which filed an amicus brief in the case: "We want a medical judgment, not a ruling based on fear, misunderstanding and prejudice...
...minority report, signed by all six House Republicans and Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and James McClure, insists that the majority's conclusions were "hysterical" and that the President and his staff made "mistakes in judgment, and nothing more." Republican Senator Warren Rudman, who agreed with the majority, dismissed the highly partisan minority paper as "pathetic." Indeed, the profiteering, shredding of documents and widespread lying, and a secret policy that eroded the President's credibility while accomplishing none of its objectives, clearly was something more than a mere matter of poor judgment...
...students should not hesitate to complain about a lessthen-adequate section instructor and should feel no compunctions whatsoever about raising a stink and switching out. Further, we should have no qualms about asking professors to regrade exams if we doubt the competence or judgment of our graders. Professors, after all, are--technically, at least--responsible for assigning all grades...