Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only approximates reality, because writers must inevitably select and compress. If they cannot cram in the whole truth, however, they can be expected to deliver the truth and nothing but -- especially between quotation marks. The very use of that punctuation signals a special claim to credibility: this is not judgment but unfiltered fact...
Bennett's plan could cost as much as $1 billion the first year. Where will the money come from? Most congressional drug-war hawks are withholding final judgment on his strategy until they see the bottom line. Last week Bennett would not, or could not, come up with answers...
...Raab admits that he and Brady have never got along. Brady, he says, has treated the drug issue as a "bother" and has hardly discussed it with him. A spokesman for Brady counters that "Mr. Von Raab's judgment may be affected by the decision to appoint a new Customs commissioner...
...lawyers in the field, who get their cases mainly through referrals, consider such tactics lowbrow. "I have utter contempt for those who choose to get cases this way. They deserve the bad reputation they have," says Lee Kreindler, a New York City lawyer who won a record $7.9 million judgment in the Delta case...
...challenging patient can be very irritating. "When you can, under certain circumstances, play God, you sometimes tend to behave like you are God," says Cornell's David Rogers. "The enormous satisfaction of being able to help a lot of people makes you impatient with those who question your judgment...