Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly overcome with emotion as he talked of his loyalty to the Corps, his eyes filling with tears. "In a security system, the last thin, red line is the human factor," Delgrosso said. "In the end, everything centers on integrity. How do we guarantee integrity? We look for maturity, judgment. It's clear that Lonetree and Bracy had a problem with integrity...
...Gordon returns habitually, hypnotically, to a small number of predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found objectionable, impossible to live with. Louisa is passionately devoted to Henry...
...dispute had taken on historic proportions in November 1985, when a Texas jury issued a $10.5 billion judgment against Texaco for inducing Getty Oil to break a merger agreement with Pennzoil. After more than 17 months of intricate legal maneuvers, the battle came down to a test of strength and nerve between resolute executives at two powerful corporations. In the end, neither side was willing to move far enough from its initial negotiating stance to reach an agreement...
Just over a year ago, when Baby M. was delivered, not many people had given thought to the issues of surrogate birth. By last week, when the custody judgment was rendered, was there anyone still unschooled in its painful dilemmas? Even so, no one can have felt the lessons more deeply than the child's father, William Stern, a New Jersey biochemist who was awarded custody, or her mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, who lost the little girl she gave birth to as part of their surrogate agreement...
...territory of a local youth center. The judge had shown exasperation with Whitehead's lead attorney at several points during the trial. Even so, the vehemence of his language in the ruling came as a shock to many. Perhaps with an eye to safeguarding the custody portion of his judgment from second-guessing in the appeals phase, he slashed at Whitehead's fitness as a mother, calling her "manipulative, impulsive and exploitive" as well as "untruthful" and charging that she was too possessive of her children...